Ekaterina Lermontova

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontova (11 February 1889[1] - 9 January 1942) was a Russian paleontologist responsible for creating the first Cambrian stratigraphy of Siberia. Species of fossil animals and algae, as well as Cambrian biostratigraphic divisions are named in her honor.[2]

Ekaterina Lermontova

Early life and education

Lermontova was born in St. Petersburg to a family including Mikhail Lermontov, a poet, and Iuliia Lermontova, a chemist. She was educated at the Women's Pedagogical Institute and graduated in 1910, then received a degree from the University of St. Petersburg in 1912.[2]

Career and research

In 1921, she was employed by the Geological Committee and the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Geology. Lermontova's research focused on Cambrian fossils in Siberia; she was the first researcher to investigate Cambrian trilobites in the then-USSR. Her research included trilobite fossils in Kazakhstan, Siberia, the Ural Mountains, and Middle Asia. She was killed in the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.[2]

Legacy

Lermontova is the namesake of biostratigraphic divisions of the Cambrian and of fossil animals and algae from the Cambrian.[2]

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References
  1. Николаевна, Груздева Елена (6 April 2018). "Екатерина Владимировна Лермонтова. К 120-летию со дня рождения". Universum: Вестник Герценовского университета (2) – via cyberleninka.ru.
  2. Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000-01-01). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415920407.
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