Lidia Palladievna Sergievskaya
Soviet Russian botanist (1897–1970)
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Biography
She was born into a priest's family. She graduated from the Tomsk Diocesan School.[1]
In 1920, she graduated from the natural sciences department of the physics and mathematics faculty of the Siberian Higher Courses for Women. From 1921, she worked as a junior herbarium keeper at Tomsk State University (TSU), the oldest university in Siberia.[5] From 1931, she was senior keeper of the Tomsk University Herbarium. Candidate of biological sciences (1938), associate professor of the plant taxonomy department of TSU (1942). She became a Doctor of biological sciences in 1954, and began teaching in the botany department as an associate professor, and since 1956 she was a professor. She supervised three PhD candidates.[1]
As a student of Porfiry Krylov, she helped collect materials for the 6-volume work "Flora of Western Siberia". She studied Siberian plants, including the larkspur. She described 241 new plant taxa, including (Eritrichium uralense Serg., 1964).[1]
During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), she oriented the work of the Herbarium towards the procurement of medicinal raw materials and went on three special missions to Transbaikalia. She was a devoted vegetarian.[1]
She was awarded the Order of Lenin, the medals “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 ” and “ In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”.[1]
Her portrait is included the portrait gallery of Honorary TCU Professors.
She died on 21 September 1970 and was buried in the University Grove of Tomsk State University.[1]
Plant species named in her honor
- Achillea sergievskiana, Shaulo & Shmakov, 2002
- Alchemilla lydiae, Zämelis, 1932
- Alyssum sergievskajae, Krasnob., 1975 = Stevenia sergievskajae (Krasnob.) Kamelin & Gubanov
- Cuscuta elpassiana, Pavlov, 1952
- Equisetum ×sergijevskianum, C.N.Page & Gureyeva, 2009 (Equisetum palustre × Equisetum pratense )
- Glycyrrhiza sergievskiana, Grankina & Aralbaev, 2006
- Hieracium lydiae, Schischk. & Steinb., 1949 = Pilosella lydiae (Schischk. & Steinb.)] Tupitz.
- Lotus sergievskiae, Kamelin & Kovalevsk., 1981
- Poa sergievskajae, Prob., 1971
- Potentilla lydiae, Kurbatsky, 1985
- Potentilla sergievskajae, Peschkova, 1970
- Rosa sergievskiana, Polozhij & Prozorova, 1975
- Thymus sergievskajae, Karav., 1971
- Torularia sergievskiana, Polozhij, 1974
- Veronica sergievskiana, Polozhij, 1997