Aleksandra Troitskaya
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26 May 1896
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| Born | Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya 26 May 1896 |
| Died | 19 April 1979 (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv National Medical University |
| Occupation | doctor |
Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya (Russian: Алекса́ндра Серге́евна Тро́ицкая; 1896–1979) was a Soviet microbiologist-leprologist, candidate of medical sciences. Author of cancer vaccine.[1][2] Honorary Citizen of Kaluga (1996).[3]
Troitskaya was born in Bryankovo (now in Suvorovsky District of Tula Oblast), grew up in Kaluga.[3][4]
In 1917 she graduated from the Kaluga Diocesan School (she also studied with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky). In 1920s she worked as a teacher.[3][5]
In 1934 she graduated from Kharkiv National Medical University. In 1940-1951 a microbiologist, from 1946 Senior Researcher of the Astrakhan Leprosarium.[6]
In 1946, at the Kazan Federal University, she defended her thesis on pain biotherapy in the treatment of leprosy.[7]
Since 1951 (after retirement) she worked as a microbiologist in the laboratory of the Kaluga Oncologic Dispensary.[6]
She discovered new strains of corynebacteria — Corynebacterium Krestovnikova / Troitskaya.[8][9]
Andrei Sakharov, who tried to use Troitskaya to treat his first wife's cancer, wrote about her in his memoirs.[10]
Died
Troitskaya died in 1979. Buried on Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Kaluga.