Tatiana Fiodorovna Stschapova (1902–1954)

Abstract

On 14 of March 2022 it was 120 years since the day of birth of Tatiana Fiodorovna Stschapova, outstanding algologist, doctor of biological sciences. On 7 of May 2023 there was 75 years from her including in the staff of Oceanology Institute as senior scientist. She was one of the brilliant scientific pleiad which has created world-wide reputation of our Institute. Tatiana Fiodorovna studied bottom flora and vegetation in Black, Azov, Caspian, White and Barents Seas. In 1948 she organized and headed the first expedition of IO on Far East seas. Those expeditions have continued their activity in 1950th and raised marine algology of Japan Sea and Sakhalin Island to new level of knowledge. Stschapov’s publications on bottom flora and structure of benthic communities are up to now considered to be standard of hydrobotanical investigations. Her doctor thesis has laid the foundation of marine phytogeography. The scientific direction she had created has been continued by her follower Vera Vozzhinskaya and exists nowadays in the Laboratory of coastal ecology IO. Returning to Moscow from Sakhalin expedition Tatiana Fiodorovna perished in the airplane crash – being just in the prime of her talent. The investigation of archive documents resulted in very interesting data on her family and ancestors – on the historical background of our motherland.