Evgenia Semenovskaya

Evgenia SemenovskayaEvgenia Nikolaevna Semenovskaya (Simonovskaya) (, 1895–1976) was a Russian ophthalmologist and revolutionary politician. At a young age she was a Socialist-Revolutionary (later Left Socialist-Revolutionary) leader in Ufa during 1917–1918, and would then be one of the main leaders of the short-lived Party of Revolutionary Communism. She left politics in 1920 and would pursue a long research career in ophthalmology.

Revolution in Ufa Semenovskaya was born in 1895. During her youth she was active in the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries. In May 1918, in protest against the PLSR(i) Central Committee line on the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, she resigned from the PLSR(i) Governorate Committee. In the aftermath of the failed 6–7 July 1918 uprising of the PLSR(i) Semenovskaya was elected president of the PLSR(i) Ufa Governorate Committee.

Semenovskaya supported unity with other elements from the Socialist-Revolutionary movement. In June 1919 she traveled to Kyiv along with G. N. Maksimov, to meet with the leadership of the Ukrainian Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (Borbysts). On 8 September 1919 she signed the declaration to 'To all revolutionary populists' together with Zitta on behalf of the Party of Revolutionary Communism. She delivered the report of the Unification Organizational Bureau at the 6th All-Russian Conference of the Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries-Maximalists. As a scientist she would author more than 40 works on the psychophysiology of vision. From the 1930s to the 1950s she worked as a senior researcher at the . She studied the lability (mobility) of the cerebral cortex and retina in patients with glaucoma. She got a doctorate in biological sciences in 1955. Semenovskaya died in 1976, at the age of 79.