“…Over the 60 years of her scientific career, she undertook research on Cretaceous and especially Cenozoic strata from the Slovak, Polish and Ukrainian Carpathians, central Ukraine, the Black Sea, southern European Russia, the North Caucasus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, the Black Sea shelf, and the Pacific and Indian oceans. Aida Sergeevna authored and co-authored biostratigraphical schemes for the Cretaceous, Palaeogene and Neogene deposits of the Carpathians, Ukraine, and the Crimean-Caucasian region (Grigorovich et al 1973;, 1991, 2017Vyalov et al 1989;Zosimovich et al 2005;Semenenko et al 2009;Gozhik et al 2015b). Aida Sergeevna was also a co-author of the Atlas of the Palaeogeographic Maps of the Paratethys (Popov et al 2009).…”