Galina Matvievskaya

Galina Pavlovna Matvievskaya (Russian: Галина Павловна Матвиевская; 13 July 1930 – 30 January 2025) was a Soviet historian. She specialized in the history of mathematics, writing several books related to the Islamic Golden Age. Biography Matvievskaya was born on 13 July 1930 in Dnipropetrovsk to Ukrainian parents, historian and museum curator Kseniya Hololobova. Her grandfather was a politician who served as governor of Volhynia and Yenisey Governorates.

Matvievskaya was raised in Kharkiv and, after the outbreak of the German–Soviet War, in Chlakov (now Orenburg).

Matvievskaya won the State Prize of the Uzbek SSR in 1974, She became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1995. In 2000, she was elected full member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. She won the Orenburg Lyre Prize in 2002 and 2011. She was awarded the 2005 All-Russian Pushkin Literature Prize for "outstanding contribution to literary studies and promotion of the historical heritage of the native land". She was titled Honorary Worker of Higher Vocational Education in 2010.

Matvievskaya died on 30 January 2025 in Orenburg; she was 94. Works The Doctrine of Number in the Medieval Near and Middle East (1967) The Development of the Doctrine of Number in Europe before the 17th Century (1971) René Descartes (1976) Albrecht Dürer — Scientist (1987) Essays on the History of Trigonometry: Ancient Greece, Medieval East, Late Middle Ages (1990) Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi (1999) Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (2002, as co-author) Yakov Vladimirovich Khanykov (2006) Vladimir Ivanovich Dal in Orenburg (2007, as co-author) The Life and Work of P. I. Rychkov: In 4 volumes (2008-2012) Ramus: 1515–1572 (2013) Calendar of significant and memorable dates in the Orenburg region for 2015 (2014, as co-author)