Zoya A. BESSUDNOVA

Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Email: z.bessudnova@sgm.ru

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1899-7841

Scopus Author ID: 6506053855

Web of Science ResearcherID: Q-9665-2016

SPIN code: 1205-6325

Profile in ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zoya-Bessudnova

Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (speciality: history of science and technology), principal specialist – custodian at Vernadsky State Geological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research interests:

history of geology, history of science museums, history of mineralogical collections, scientific biographies

Membership in scientific associations:

  • International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO), member
  • Russian Mineralogical Society, member
  • Moscow Society of Naturalists, member

Awards:

  • commemorative medal dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.I. Fischer von Waldheim, awarded by the Moscow Society of Naturalists and Lomonosov Moscow State University Museum of Earth Sciences (2021)
  • A.E. Fersman Medal "For Merits in Geology" of the Russian Geological Society (2019)
  • Medal "Academician A.L. Yanshin" of the Academy of Mining Sciences (2011)
  • Certificate of Appreciation of the RF Ministry of Natural Resources (2005)
  • Russian Geological Society Award (2001)

Publications in the subject area of the journal “Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki” [“Studies in the History of Science and Technology”]:

  • Pervoe stoletie Muzeya estestvennoi istorii Moskovskogo universiteta. Traditsii metsenatstva i sud'by kollektsii [The first century of the Moscow university natural history museum. Traditions of patronage and history of collections], NV–Novitates, 2019, no. 16-1, pp. 68-82. DOI: 10.31343/1029-7812-2019-16-1-68-82 (in Russian)
  • Moskovskoe obshchestvo ispytatelei prirody v biografii M.V. Pavlovoi (K 165-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya) [Moscow society of naturalists in biography of M.V. Pavlowa (To the 165th birth anniversary)], Byulleten' MOIP. Otdel geologicheskii [Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists. Geological Section], 2019, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 38-47. (with Lyubina, G.I.) (in Russian)
  • Mariya Vasil'evna Pavlova. 1854-1938 [Maria Vasilievna Pavlowa. 1854-1938], A.S. Alexeyev, exec. editor. M.: YANUS-K, 2019. 564 p. (with Lyubina, G.I.) (in Russian)
  • Glavnaya dama otechestvennoi paleontologii. K 165-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya pochetnogo akademika M.V. Pavlovoi [Main lady of russian paleontology. To the 165th anniversary of the honorary academician Maria V. Pavlova], Vestnik Rossijskoj Akademii nauk [Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences], 2019, no. 6, pp. 621-628. (with Lyubina, G.I.) (in Russian)
  • The first Russian monograph on the history of geology by Grigory E. Shchurovsky, professor of Moscow University: on the 150th anniversary of the publication. Celebrating 50 Years of INHIGEO, Eds. W. Mayer, R.M. Clary, L.F. Azuela, N.S. Mots & S. Wolkowicz. London: GSL, 2017, pp. 217-227. (GSL Special Publication; 442). URL
  • K 105-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya Aleksandra Leonidovicha Yanshina [Towards the 105th anniversary of birth of Alexandre Leonidovich Yanshin], Otechestvennaya Geologiya [National Geology], 2016, no. 2, pp. 83-86.
  • Karl Frantsovich Rul'e: Stranitsy biografii [Carl Frantsovich Rouillier. Pages of biography], Byulleten' MOIP. Otdel geologicheskii [Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists. Geological Section], 2014, vol. 89, no. 5, pp. 16-33. (with Starodubtseva, I.А.) (in Russian)
  • Rabota E.V. Milanovskogo v oblasti istorii geologicheskikh nauk [Work of E.E. Milanovsky in field of geological sciences history], Byulleten' MOIP. Otdel geologicheskii [Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists. Geological Section], 2013. Т. 88. № 4. С. 10-17. (in Russian)
  • Grigory (Gotthelf) Fischer von Waldheim (1771-1853): author of the first scientific works on Russian geology and paleontology, Earth Sciences History, 2013, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 102-120. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24137863
  • Inostrannye chleny Rossijskoj akademii nauk. XVIII-XXI vv.: Geologija i gornye nauki [Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. XVIII-XXI: geology and mining A.O. Gliko, Editor-in-Chief; I.G. Malakhova, Exec. Ed. M.: GTsRAN, 2012. 504 p. DOI: 10.2205/2012DES_foreign (with Malakhova, I.G., Khomizuri, G.P., and Minina, Е.L.)
  • Maria Wasiliewna Pawłowa (1854-1938) – professor zoologii Universytetu Moskiewskiego, Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, 2012, vol. 57, no. 3/4, pp. 203-214. https://docplayer.pl/14345480-Kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki-r-57-2012.html (in Polish)
  • Evgeny E. Milanovsky (1923-2012): Obituary, INHIGEO Newsletter, 2012, no. 44, pp. 46-48. (with Vinogradova E., and Tveritinova, T.) URL

Contact information:

11 Mokhovaya st., bldg.11, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

+7 (495) 629-7690

Email: zbessudnova@gmail.com