PROMINENT WOMEN-ALGOLISTS OF THE SEVASTOPOL BIOLOGICAL STATION – INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS: FATES AND WAYS IN SCIENCE

Abstract

In 2021, the Sevastopol Biological Station – Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (SBS–IBSS) celebrated its 150th anniversary. This paper presents well-known and unfamiliar biographical data and information about the scientific activities of prominent algologists – Sofia Mikhailovna Pereyaslavtseva, Nina Vasilievna Morozova-Vodyanitskaya and Alexandra Arkhipovna Kalugina-Gutnik, who worked for many years at SBS–IBSS. Their main achievements in the field of biology and ecology of macrophytes, the functioning of coastal ecosystems and the transformation of macrophytobenthos under various environmental conditions are shown. Some applied studies on the assessment of macrophyte stocks and the quality of the environment using indicators of macrophytobenthos and phytoplankton at different levels of their organization, on the cultivation of especially valuable species and the production of various compounds from them are characterized. The contribution of S. M. Pereyaslavtseva, N. V. Morozova-Vodyanitskaya and A. A. Kalugina-Gutnik in the development of algological and hydrobiological research in the Black Sea basin, other southern seas, their role in the creation of scientific schools of marine phytocenology and phytoplanktonology in SBS–IBSS, training of young researchers is shown. Brief data on the history of scientific expeditions and the participation of algologists in them are given. The work is illustrated with rare documents and photographs, many of which have not been published before.