Yakovleva Elizaveta Ansovna
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Forensic Medical Expert
Elizaveta Ansovna Yakovleva is one of the most prominent representatives of forensic medicine in
Russia. She made a significant contribution to the development of forensic medicine in Tomsk and Siberia, and accomplished significant work in training highly qualified forensic doctors and improving the forensic medical service in Siberia.
She was born on June 2 (14), 1892, in Mitava, Courland Governorate, to a family of farmers. During World War I, she served as a nurse in the 12th Army. In 1917, she was a delegate to the front-line congress in Pskov. She graduated from Perm University (1922) with a medical degree... She worked for some time in Pskov.
She headed the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Tomsk Medical Institute, with several breaks, from 1936 to 1944. In 1937, she defended her candidate's dissertation on "Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries," and in 1939, her doctoral dissertation on "Materials on the Question of Macroscopic Changes in Exhumed Corpses." She was awarded the academic title of professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine by the Higher Military School of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR in 1939. To this day, this work remains unique in the number of exhumed corpses examined—more than 250 cases.
Based on her dissertation materials, she published the following works: "Exhumation Rules," "Decomposition Processes of Corpses in the Ground," and "Late Studies of Traumatic Brain Injuries." She also published a monograph, "Poisonous Mushrooms of Russia."
In 1944, she left for Latvia and was appointed Chief Forensic Expert of the Republic of Latvia, and also headed the Department of Forensic Medicine at Riga University.
For several years, she headed the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Riga Medical Institute (1941, 1944, 1946, 1954–1955). Organizer and first chairperson of the Riga NOSM.
According to some reports, E.A. Yakovleva was repressed and then rehabilitated. E.A. Yakovleva died in 1955 in Riga.
Источники и дополнительная информация
- Елизавета Ансовна Яковлева (1892-1955) – видный деятель советской судебной медицины / Некрылов, Сергей Александрович; Алябьев, Федор Валерьевич / Сибирский медицинский журнал. 2011. Т. 26, № 1, вып. 2. С. 107-108.
- Профессора медицинского факультета Императорского (государственного) Томского университета – Томского медицинского института – Сибирского государственного медицинского университета (1878-2003) / Томск. Издательство Томского университета. 2004.
Documents (4)
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 016: Широков
005. Doctor's death certificate. Tomsk, January 16, 1942
Transcript
Doctor's death certificate
Prisoner Shirokov Ivan Andreevich, age 53.
Time of death: January 12, 1942.
During the autopsy it was found that death resulted from: Sclerosis of the cerebral vessels.
Forensic expert, professor signature Yakovlev
January 16, 1942, Tomsk
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 028: Пундель
006. Medical death certificate, Tomsk, February 8, 1942.
Full transcript:
DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
[P]undel Ksenia Davydovna
Age: 71 years
Date of death : February 8, 1942
An autopsy revealed that death was caused by senile dementia .
Military medical expert,
[pro]professor signature /Yakovleva/
(?)... 1942, Tomsk
Source: typewritten form, handwritten. Signature – autograph
Persons in the document:
- Ksenia Davydovna Pundel is a person involved in the document
- Yakovleva is a military medical expert, professor(?)
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 033: Тищенко
008. Doctor's death certificate. Tomsk, January 13, 1942
Death certificate of Grigory Tikhonovich Tishchenko indicating the cause of death
Full transcript:
DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH.
Z/k. Tishchenko Grigory Tikhonovich .
age 54 years
Time of death: January 13, 1942
An autopsy revealed that death was caused by duodenal cancer.
Forensic expert
Professor signature /YAKOVLEVA/
January 13, 1942, Tomsk
Source : typewritten form, filled out by hand. Signature – autograph.
Persons in the document:
- Tishchenko Grigory Tikhonovich is a defendant in the case;
- Yakovleva is a forensic expert and professor.
Fund 100 / Inventory 005 / Case 038: Янцен
009. Death certificate. Tomsk, December 14, 1941
Death certificate
Yantsen Petr Petrovich, born in 1908, died on December 14, 1941 from lobar pneumonia in the red hepatization stage.
Forensic expert, prof. [signature] [Yakovleva]
December 14, 1941
Tomsk
