Women Scientists of Leningrad in Defense of Their Beloved City (Documentary Publication)

This is the first publication of the documents that had been collected in January 1945 by order of the Leningrad Committee of the Oblast Union of the Workers of Higher School and
Scientific Institutions for the exhibition “Leningrad women in defense of their beloved city,”
planned for March 1945. These documents include the exhibition plan and the descriptions
of female researchers’ activities at the Leningrad scientific and higher education institutions, who stayed in the city during the siege of Leningrad and were awarded state decorations, including the employees of the Radium Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences,
the Leningrad Institute of Physics and Technology, the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy,
the Ethnographic Institute, the Leningrad City Institute forAdvanced Teacher Training, and
others. These documents are currently deposited in the St. Petersburg Central State Archive. The publication is provided with the archaeographic commentaries.