Background
Maslennikova was born on April 29, 1926 in the village of Priluki near Vologda in the former Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Maslennikova was born on April 29, 1926 in the village of Priluki near Vologda in the former Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Moscow State University.
In 1941 she entered the Moscow Textile Engineering School. Maslennikova served in the Great Patriotic War for Russia during the early 1940s in the 413th Independent Antiaircraft Artillery Division in the front-line army. After the war she enrolled in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the University of Moscow.
She graduated with distinction in 1951, having studied under Gelfond.
Maslennikova then enrolled as a graduate student at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, advised by Sergei Sobolev. She obtained her doctorate in 1954 on the topic of "fundamental solutions of initial boundary-value problems for systems of hydrodynamics of rotating fluids with regard to compressibility." She then continued research at the Steklov Institute, working there for twenty two years.
In 1975 she became the chair of differential equations and functional analysis at the Patrice Lumumba University and continued working there until her death in 2000. She worked in the field of partial differential equations, the mathematical hydrodynamics of rotating fluids, and in function spaces, having published more than one hundred and forty research papers.