Zinaida Botschantzeva

Russian botanist and embryologist (1907-1973).

Zinaida Petrovna Botschantzeva (10 October 1907 – 17 August 1973) was a Soviet and Russian botanist, cytologist, embryologist, and professor of the Tashkent university. Botschantzeva came from a large Cossack family. In 1930 she graduated with a biology degree from the National University of Uzbekistan. In 1930-1933 she participated in expeditions to study the flora of Central Asia. Her research advisor was Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky. Botschantzeva conducted her own research the National University of Uzbekistan where she became a professor in 1966. Her main research interests were the morphol