Asya Kolchynska

Asya Zelikivna Kolchynska (; July 4, 1918 – 2010) was a Ukrainian pathophysiologist, Doctor of medical sciences, and Professor (1976). Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2000).

Early life and education Asya Kolchynska was born in 1918 in Kyiv in the family of an employee.

Career With the beginning of the battles on the Eastern Front of the Second World War, Kolchynska moved to Omsk, where she worked at the local pedagogical institute and studied at the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute in the evacuation. From 1946 Kolchynska worked at the Institute of Physiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Kyiv). Between 1969 and 1976, she was the head of the Laboratory of Applied Physiology, and from 1976 to 1982 she was the head of the hypoxia department.

In 1982 Kolchynska transferred to the Kyiv Institute of Physical Culture. She was a professor-consultant and head of the hypoxia department of the problem laboratory.

Works

Oxygen deficiency and age (1964), Oxygen regime of the child and teenager (1973), Underwater medical and biological research (1976), Respiration and oxygen regimes of dolphins (1980), Secondary tissue hypoxia (1983), Oxygen, physical condition, efficiency (1992).