Brotskaya Vera

1903-1962
Born in Moscow in the family of an engineer. Graduated from the Department of natural physical and mathematical faculty of Moscow University, specializing in zoology in 1924. In 1921, while still a student at 2-year student, started working in the Marine Science Institute, later reorganized into the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO).

. In the twenties and thirties, VA
. Brotskaya participated in 12 polar expeditions to the courts "Malygin" and "Perseus" in the Barents, White, and Kara Sea to the coasts of Norway and Svalbard. It was a romantic time, when opened untold wealth of the polar seas, but the share of direct participants in these campaigns fell exhausting multi-day storm, icy frames, interesting, but very hard work. In 1938. VA. Brotskaya become a candidate of biological sciences and has been credited as assistant, and since 1943. - Associate Professor Department of Zoology and comparative anatomy of invertebrates MSU.

VA. Brotskaya engaged in a quantitative view of the bottom fauna and issues of biological productivity of the benthos. She is credited with introducing a method of filling indices intestine, and still is considered the main food fish in the study of. She led the work on the integrated study of the intertidal zone of Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea, as fodder for fishing birds and fish. VA. Brotskaya pioneered the study meiofauna - microscopic benthic animals, millions of representatives who inhabit every square meter of the intertidal zone.

VA. Brotskaya was an outstanding teacher and scientific supervisor. All the powers of the soul, she gave the students'. The chair was a better leader projects and dissertations than VA. Brotskaya, co-Thoraya sacrificed his personal research, in order to help students. For many years she directed the research colloquium of faculty and student academic circle, which met zoologists and hydrobiologists from all over Moscow. At VA. Brotskaya lay the brunt of the educational and methodical work, in particular, of a set of colored training tables, ordered by artists when moving to a new building of Moscow State University in 1953, which the department uses still. Describing VA. Brotskaya, academician, LA. Zenkevich said: "Usually, all the main daily work of the departments bear the brunt of one or two people. That is the officer in my department has always been in. A. Brotskaya.


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