Lantratova Antonina Stepanovna: the life of a scientist and teacher.

A.S. Lantratova, the oldest employee of the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology of PetrSU, Associate Professor, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Honored Worker of Higher Education of Russia, Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, awarded the badge “For excellent success in work and training of specialists”, is honorary member of the Russian Botanical Society. In 1947 she graduated from the Faculty of Geography of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. Pokrovsky. Outstanding scientists and teachers of that time participated in the education and development of the researcher. She worked on expeditions of the USSR Academy of Sciences: to develop the Karakum Canal, forest belts and protect the banks of the Volga; in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range (Far East). In 1952 - successful defense of his candidate's thesis, placement in Kazan Federal State University. Her research is related to the introduction of plants and the formation of the Botanical Garden of PetrSU. Honored teacher, organizer of a scientific school on the problems of introduction and landscaping, head of the university's SSS, Chairman of the school biological Olympiad in Karelia. Many of her graduate students are candidates and doctors of science, employees of various institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, managers in governing bodies and the government of Karelia, and employees of PetrSU. A.S. Lantratova is the author and co-author of scientific and popular science publications: “Identifier of trees and shrubs in Karelia”, “Woody plants introduced in Karelia”, “Gardens and parks in the history of Petrozavodsk”, etc. And even when she was 92 years old, her the hand was always “on the pulse of time.” Bright memory!