Background
She was born in Penza into the family of Alexander Erich Kohts, a local civil servant.
She was born in Penza into the family of Alexander Erich Kohts, a local civil servant.
She graduated from the Women"s Higher Courses in 1916.
Who led a zoopsychology laboratory at Darwin Museum in Moscow. In 1913 she created zoopsychology laboratory at the Darwin Museum in Moscow. In 1945 she was promote as a senior research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Ladygina-Kohts in her research compared psychology of humans and other primates.
Behaviors, intelligence and emotions of young chimpanzees in comparison with human children were her main subject.
She was named an Honored Scientist of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1960.