Olga M. Martynova

Olga Mikhailovna Martynova (19 July 1900 – 18 February 1997) was a Russian palaeoentomologist.

Biography Martynova was born Olga Mikhailovna Aleksandrova in Saint Petersburg on 19 July 1900. At university she became interested in freshwater insects, taking part in a scientific expedition to Karelia where she met her future husband and scientific partner, Professor Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov (1879-1938).

During World War II, Martynova was part of the team responsible for moving the Soviet National Academy of Sciences' insect collection to the copper mines at Kargala for protection, and she helped monitor and protect the collection remaining in the Academy building in Moscow from incendiary bombs during air raids.

Martynova died on 18 February 1997. Narynia Martynova, 1967 (order Entomobryomorpha). Proraphidia Martynova, 1947 (order Raphidioptera).

Selected works [note: a detailed list of Martynova's most important works features in Sukatsheva and Ivanov, 2002]

Martynova wrote the sections: Class Insecta, taxonomic part. Subclass Apterygota. Orders Collembola, Diplura, Thysanura, Monura, Manteodea, Isoptera, Dermaptera, Embioptera, Miomoptera, Caloneurodea, Glosselytrodea, Phasmatodea. Superordo Thysanopteroidea. Orders Thysanoptera, Strepsiptera, Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Neuroptera, Mecoptera, Trichoptera, Hymenoptera