Aleksandra Troitskaya | |
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Born | Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya 26 May 1896 |
Died | 19 April 1979 | (aged 82)
Nationality | Russian |
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]
In 1917 she graduated from the Kaluga Diocesan School (she also studied with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky). In 1920s she worked as a teacher. [3]
In 1934 she graduated from Kharkiv National Medical University. In 1940-1951 a microbiologist, from 1946 Senior Researcher of the Astrakhan Leprosarium. [4]
In 1946, at the Kazan Federal University, she defended her thesis on pain biotherapy in the treatment of leprosy. [5]
Since 1951 (after retirement) she worked as a microbiologist in the laboratory of the Kaluga Oncologic Dispensary. [4]
She discovered new strains of corynebacteria — Corynebacterium Krestovnikova / Troitskaya. [6] [7]
Troitskaya died in 1979. Buried on Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Kaluga.