Navalikhina Nina Konstantinovna

Genus. in 1917 in Luga, Petrograd province, in a family of employees. In 1935 graduated from school in the Vasileostrovsky district of Leningrad, went to work as a computer operator in the Bureau of the General. magnet. filming of the Main Geophysical Observatory. 01/15/1936 enrolled in the Public Library as an assistant librarian, 08/25/1936. resigned due to admission to the Faculty of Biology of Leningrad State University. She specialized in plant genetics. Even in her student years, her article “Restoration of the fertility of a wheat-rye hybrid by the influence of colchicine” was published in the “Reports of the USSR Academy of Sciences”, submitted for publication by Acad. N.I. Vavilov.
After graduating from university in 1941. sent to work at the Leningrad Pediatric Institute as a senior clinical laboratory assistant in the tuberculosis department, where she worked until May 1942. In the winter of this year she suffered severe dystrophy. In June 1942 entered the State Sanitary Inspectorate of the Vasileostrovsky District as an assistant epidemiologist. Soon, on a trumped-up charge (allegedly misappropriation of the second copy of a monthly ration card issued by misunderstanding, but in reality returned), she was sentenced by a people's court to 2 years in prison. conclusions. The Leningrad City Court upheld the verdict, however, the Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR, recognizing the accusation as unfounded, 06/19/1943. overturned the people's sentence. court and the decision of the Leningrad City Court. During the 8-month period. conclusion N. worked as a turner and milling machine repairing military equipment.
Released from illegal imprisonment, she was released on July 15, 1943. hired by the PB as a librarian. From 04/15/1944 She studied at the graduate school of Moscow State University, at the Department of Genetics of the Research Institute of Zoology of Moscow State University.
She graduated from graduate school without defending a dissertation, the main reason for which was the harsh persecution of genetics. After graduating from graduate school, she worked at the Zonal Institute of Grain Farming of the Non-Black Earth Zone, then at the State Biological Museum named after. K. A. Timiryazeva. In 1949 enrolled ml. researcher at the Derkul Research Station of the Forest Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where she worked until 1957, in 1957 - 1961. - in the Arboretum of the Forestry Research Institute, and since 1961. - in various scientific research institutions of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences. In 1966 defended her PhD in 1974 - doctoral dissertation.
In 1977 she was dismissed due to the transition to retirement.
Author of more than 40 scientific publications. She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad” and other medals, a diploma and the VDNKh medal.