Wittenburg Evgenia Pavlovna

Genus. 01/15/1922 in Petrograd, in the family of the geologist Professor P.V. Wittenburg. In 1940 she entered the 1st Med. institute. From the beginning of the Great Patriotic War she was in defense work, from July 1941 to February 1942 she worked as an X-ray technician in the 7th children's clinic in the Vyborg district. On February 28, 1942, in a state of severe dystrophy, she was evacuated to Arkhangelsk. In the summer of 1942 she entered the philol. fak. Karelo-Fin. un-ta, translated. from Petrozavodsk to Syktyvkar, where she studied for 2 years. In 1944 she returned to Leningrad and in 1945 she was admitted to the 2nd year of the East. fak. Leningrad State University at the department history and theory of arts. At the end of the un-that in 1949 she was admitted to the candidate. exams and entered the external postgraduate study at Leningrad State University. In 1950, she was enrolled in the OSist PB culture group as a librarian, then, in 1951, she was approved as a bibliographer. In March 1952 she graduated from VBC. From May 1953 she worked at the Scientific Library of the Academy of Arts. In 1977 she retired, but worked temporarily until 1982. After her retirement, she did not stop her scientific studies and continued archival research on the history of the library of the Academy of Arts. A special place in the activity was occupied by the history of the family and the figure of the father - the explorer of the Arctic and Krain. North. Worked on a monograph dedicated to the work of Russian scientists in the study of the natural resources of Yakutia. Member of the Memorial Society since 1994. Died in St. Petersburg on 06/07/2015.