Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Earlier this year, Natalia Pogodina, the mammalian palaeontologist who studied Late Cenozoic small mammals of the Southern Trans-Urals region in the Ural Federal University, in the Yekaterinburg, Russia, died on 27 th of April, 2024 after several years long battle with cancer, which she fought with tenacity and dignity.Natalia Valentinovna Pogodina (born Ivakina) was born on 24th of March, 1971 in Novouralsk, an industrial city in the Sverdlovsk Region.Her father was Valentin Aleksandrovich Ivakin, an engineering physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1993).Valentin Ivakin greatly contributed to the development and improvement of isotope separation technology.Her mother, Galina Petrovna Ivakina, was an economist.Natalia's parents did not survive the covid pandemic in 2020.Natalia gave birth to two sons, Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Pogodin (born 1998) and Vsevolod Nikolaevich Pogodin (born 2006).After secondary school Natalia (Natasha) entered the Biological Faculty of the Ural State University named after A.M.Gorky (currently, the Ural Federal University named after the fi rst President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin).Her fi rst steps in science Natalia made under the guidance of the fi rst professional palaeotheriologist in Sverdlovsk, Anna Georgievna Maleeva.The main topic of her studies became fossil small
Source: Russian Journal of Theriology
Language: English
Subfield: Paleontology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404831587