Background
LEPESHINSKAYA, Ol’ga was born on August 18, 1871.
LEPESHINSKAYA, Ol’ga was born on August 18, 1871.
1897 graduate Rozhdestvenskiy Med Orderlies’ Courses, St. Petersburg. 1902 studied at Med Faculty, Lausanne University. 1906 studied at private medical course for women in Moscow.
1915 graduate Med Faculty, Moscow University.
1894 joined Marxist circle. 1897-1900 exiled with husband, the revolutionary P. N. Lepe- shinskiy, to Siberia, where she worked as a nurse in the village Kuragino, Yeniseysk Province. 1899 attended conference of Marxist-in-exilc at which Lenin presented his anti-Economist program.
1903 accompanied her exiled husband to Minusinsk and organized his subsequent flight. 1903-1906 lived in Geneva and worked with local Bolshevik emigres. 1906 returned to Russia, living first in Orsha, then in Moscow, where she continued her revol activities.
After obtaining medical license became assistant professor, Chair of Therapy, Moscow University but was soon fired on political grounds. After this worked as a distr physician at a railroad station near Moscow. Also worked in Crimea.
1919-1920 assistant professor, Chair of Histology, Tashkent University. 1920-1926 assistant professor, Chair of Histology, 1st Moscow University. 1926-1936 head, Histological Laboratory, Biological Institute, Timiryazev Communist Academy (now All-Union Institute of Experimental Med).
1936-1949 Head, Cytological Laboratory, All-Union Institute of Experimental Med. 1949-1957 head. Department for the Development of Living Matter, Institute of Experimental Biology, USSR Academy of Med Sciences. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1950 convocation.
From 1957 head, Cytological Laboratory, Institute of Experimental Biology. Member, ed collegiom, journal “Uspekhi sovremennoy biologii”. Member, ed council, journal “Arkhiv anatomii, gistologii i embriologii”.
Did research on the histology of bone tissue and on non-cellular living matter and its role in the organism. A research project on living matter which she began in 1950 failed to yield results and was strongly criticized by other sci. Wrote over 150 works.
Religious faith contradicts people’s efforts to obtain the truth about nature and a human being.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, USSR Academy of Med Sciences from 1950. Communist Party member from 1898.