Olga Fominichna Misgiryova

Olga Fominitschna Misgirjowa ( Russian Ольга Фоминична Мизгирёва * 1908 in the village of Kara-Kala ( Turkmen Garrygala today Magtymguly) in the Kopet Dag , Welaýaty Balkans , † 1994 ) was a Soviet - Turkmen painter and botanist .

Life

Misgirjowa's father, Foma Ivanovich Misgirjow, was a post office worker in the small village of Kara-Kala, where Russian settlers had settled. She became interested in painting from an early age . In 1920 she began her training in the experimental art school in Ashgabat , the director of which she later married Alexander Wladychuk.

Misgirjowa based her art on traditional Turkmen motifs, which she painted in bright colors. Her pictures are exhibited in the Saparmyrat Turkmenbashi the Great Museum of the Performing Arts in Ashgabat. Her art influenced Issat Klychev and the Turkmen Semjorka group .

In 1934 Misgirjowa received the order from the Netherlands to make several thousand illustrations of tulips from Nikolai Ivanovich Vawilov's collection. She returned to her hometown and began working as a laboratory assistant in the Turkmen research station of the All Union Institute for Plant Breeding . She discovered the rare Mandragora turcomanica in southwest Kopet-Dag in 1938 and described it in 1942. She wrote about 50 specialist articles. From 1944 until her retirement in 1981 she was director of this research station. Together with others, she initiated the Sünt-Hasardag nature reserve in 1976 .

Honors

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (twice)
• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (twice)
• Honored Agronomist of Turkmenistan

Web links

• International Plant Names Index (IPNI): Mizgireva, OF
• Worldcat : Mizgireva, OF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Тамара ГЛАЗУНОВА: Удивительная судьба Ольги Мизгирёвой (accessed February 4, 2020).
2. ↑ Ильга Мехти, Ашхабад: Реликт. Из подлинных историй Русской Азии (accessed February 4, 2020).
3. ↑ Зарембо, Владимир: Талант, отданный служению природе и земле (accessed February 4, 2020).
4. ↑ Зарембо, Владимир: Туркестанский авангард (2010) (accessed February 4, 2020).