Olga Filippovna Yakushko

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Olga Filippovna Jakuschko ( Russian Ольга Филипповна Якушко , Belarusian Вольга Піліпаўна Якушка * 18th March 1921 in Minsk , † 21st August 2012 ibid) was a Soviet - Belarusian Geomorphologin , Limnologin and high school teacher .

Life

Yakushko's father, the son of a farmer, became a noted civil engineer during the first Soviet five-year plans . He built the main building of the Belarusian State University (BGU) , which now houses the Faculty of Geography , the linen combine Orsha and the last sections of the Belarusian government building. Jakuschko's mother was very educated and worked in the Minsk city library. Jakuschko attended Minsk Middle School No. 5 with graduation in 1938. Against her father's wishes, she did not study civil engineering , but began studying in the geography faculty of the BGU. At the beginning of the During the German-Soviet war she was as a student intern in the Caucasus and came to Kurgan beyond the Urals . When she learned that her father for a large military construction projects in Rajon Kuibyshev mobilized had been, she traveled there and worked in the engine plant no. 24 as after Moscow evacuated BGU in October 1943 and teaching started in the station Schodnja in Khimki resumed, continued Jakuschko continued her studies there. She was particularly impressed by Vasily Alexejewitsch Dementjew's lecture on physical geography . In 1945 she was one of the first to return to Minsk and, along with teachers and students, took part in the restoration of the BGU buildings. In the same year, she completed her studies and began the three-year aspirant course at the BGU.

After graduation, Jakuschko taught at the Chair of Physical Geography at the BGU. In 1949 she successfully defended her dissertation on the geomorphology of the southern Minsk Heights for her doctorate as a candidate for geographic sciences. In 1952 she became a lecturer at the chair for physical geography at the BGU. In 1954 she entered the Geographical Society of the USSR . She was elected deputy in the Minsk city soviet .

Jakuschko developed a complex limnological classification of the lakes of Belarus . She examined the historical development of the lakes in the Holocene and the anthropological eutrophication under the conditions of intensive economic activity . She developed the scientific basis for the protection and maintenance of the lake landscape.

In 1970, Jakuschko was the first woman in Belarus to successfully defend her doctoral thesis on the historical development and current state of the lakes in northern Belarus for a doctorate in geographic sciences. She then took part in study trips to Tanzania , Zambia , Madagascar and Mauritius (until 1973). In 1972 she was appointed professor at the Department of Physical Geography Abroad. In 1973 she organized and then headed the chair for general geography (according to Carl Ritter’s general geography) and the research laboratory for limnology . With her personal participation, the Belarusian Paleogeography School developed. In 1976 she took part in the international palynology congress in Lucknow . In 1978 she was seconded to the University of Ljubljana for scientific work and to the University of Sofia for lectures. In 1979 she did research at the Yakut University. 1981 she became the XII. Congress of Geographers of Bulgaria sent to Varna . In 1983 she gave a guest lecture at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1990 she took part on IX. Congress of the Geographical Society of the USSR, which she elected as an honorary member. She contributed to the establishment of the Naratschsee National Park . She taught at the BGU until 2006.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g BGU: Ольга Филипповна ЯКУШКО (accessed on July 24, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c d ОЛЬГАФИЛИППОВНАЯКУШКО . In: ВестникБГУ. Сер. 2 . No. 3 , 2012 ( [1] [PDF; accessed July 24, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Якушко, Ольга Филипповна: Геоморфология южной части Минской возвышенности . Белорус. гос. ун-т им. В. И. Ленина, Minsk 1949.
  4. ↑ Якушко, Ольга Филипповна: История развития и современное состояние озер Севера Белоруссии: диссертация ... доктора географических наук: 11:00:00 . Minsk 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Jakuschko, Olga Filippovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Якушко, Ольга Филипповна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Belarusian geomorphologist, limnologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2012
Place of death Minsk