Turning the pages back... May 31, 1880 (05/26/96)

Turning the pages back...

May 31, 1880

Oleksandra Smyrnova, born on May 31, 1880, in Pereyaslav, Poltava gubernia, studied at the Montpellier University in France, graduating in 1905, then returned to Ukraine to teach at the Higher Medical Courses for Women (1908-1920), the Kyiv Medical Institute (until 1930).

In 1931, she was accepted into the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, taught at the Institute of Clinical Physiology, and became a department head in 1938, a position she filled until 1953. In 1933-1941, Smyrnova also served in the Department of Pathological Anatomy at the Second Kyiv Medical Institute.

In 1953, Smyrnova assumed the post of chief of the morphology laboratory at the Academy of Sciences Institute of Physiology.

Of her scholarly works, the most important were studies of the pathological anatomy of radiation sickness, infectious diseases and the origin of tumors.

She died in Kyiv on September 22, 1962.

Source: "Smyrnova-Zamkova, Oleksandra" Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).

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