Irina_Aleksandrovna_Grudzinskaya

Irina Grudzinskaya

Irina Grudzinskaya

Russian botanist

Irina Aleksandrovna Grudzinskaya (1920–2012) was a Russian botanist who specialized in phanerogams, at one stage working in Cuba. Grudzinskaya trained at the Derkul Experimental Station of the Institute of Forestry, Academy of Science. She died in St Petersburg in 2011. In celebration of her 90th year, an article appeared in the Botanicheskii Zhurnal, which included a portrait and bibliography.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Grudz. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Grudzinskaya was born on 26 May 1920 to Kudzinskaya Blya, a teacher and Aleksandr Tukich Rudzinskiy, and attended schools in Khabarovsk and Ýngelüse. She attended Moscow State University and studied biology and by 1941, during the Second World War was working as a schoolteacher. Immediately after the end of the war in 1944 she returned to study of geobotany.[1]

Selected publications

  • Grudzinskaja, I. A. The Ulmaceae of the Far East. CABI Bulletin, Wallingford, UK.
  • Grudzinskaja, I. A. (1971). Novosti sistematiki vysshikh rastenii. Moscow & Leningrad.
  • Borodina, A. E., Grubov, V. I., Grudzinskaja, I. A., Menitsky, J. L. (2005). Plants of Central Asia: Plant Collections from China and Mongolia: 9

References

  1. [1]
    Tzvelev, N. N.; Geltman, D. V.; Dorofeyev, V. I.; Konechnaya, G. Yu.; Krupkina, L. I. (2010). "Irina Aleksandrovna Grudzinskaya (to the 90th anniversary) (in Russian)". Bot. Zhurn. 95 (9): 1339–1345. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. [2]
    International Plant Names Index.  Grudz.


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