Aleksandra Troitskaya
Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya was a Soviet microbiologist-leprologist, candidate of medical sciences. Author of cancer vaccine. Honorary Citizen of Kaluga.Biography
Troitskaya was born in Bryankovo, grew up in Kaluga.
In 1917 she graduated from the Kaluga Diocesan School. In 1920s she worked as a teacher.
In 1934 she graduated from Kharkiv National Medical University. In 1940-1951 a microbiologist, from 1946 Senior Researcher of the Astrakhan Leprosarium.
In 1946, at the Kazan Federal University, she defended her thesis on pain biotherapy in the treatment of leprosy.
Since 1951 she worked as a microbiologist in the laboratory of the Kaluga Oncologic Dispensary.
He discovered new strains of corynebacteria — Corynebacterium Krestovnikova / Troitskaya.
Aleksandra Troitskaya died in 1979. Buried on Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Kaluga.
