Valery Troitskaya

Died

Troitskaya died in 1979. Buried on Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Kaluga.

Biography

Troitskaya was born in Bryankovo (now in Suvorovsky District of Tula Oblast), grew up in Kaluga.[3]

In 1917 she graduated from the Kaluga Diocesan School (she also studied with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky). In 1920s she worked as a teacher.[3]

In 1934 she graduated from Kharkiv National Medical University. In 1940-1951 a microbiologist, from 1946 Senior Researcher of the Astrakhan Leprosarium.[4]

In 1946, at the Kazan Federal University, she defended her thesis on pain biotherapy in the treatment of leprosy.[5]

Since 1951 (after retirement) she worked as a microbiologist in the laboratory of the Kaluga Oncologic Dispensary.[4]

She discovered new strains of corynebacteria — Corynebacterium Krestovnikova / Troitskaya.

Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya (Russian: Алекса́ндра Серге́евна Тро́ицкая; 1896–1979) was a Soviet microbiologist-leprologist, candidate of medical sciences. Author of cancer vaccine.[1][2] Honorary Citizen of Kaluga (1996).