Nina Uraltseva

Nina Nikolaevna Uraltseva (born 1934, ) is a Russian mathematician, a professor of mathematics and head of the department of mathematical physics at Saint Petersburg State University, Her specialty is the study of nonlinear partial differential equations.

Nina Uraltseva was born on 24 May 1934 in Leningrad, USSR (currently St. Petersburg, Russia), to parents Nikolai Fedorovich Uraltsev, (an engineer) and Lidiya Ivanovna Zmanovskaya (a school physics teacher). She received a diploma in physics from Saint Petersburg State University (then known as Leningrad State University) in 1956. and completed her D.Sc. (the Soviet equivalent of a habilitation) in 1964. Uraltseva was a speaker at the 1970 and 1986 International Congress of Mathematicians. A meeting on partial differential equations was held in honor of her 70th birthday at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in June 2005, and in 2006 the Royal Institute of Technology gave her an honorary doctorate. A special issue of the journal Algebra i Analiz commemorated her 85th birthday.