Olga Mizgiryova

Olga Fominichna Mizgireva (; 1908 ) was a Turkmenistani painter and botanist. Life Mizgireva was born in Tashkent in 1908. Her family stems from the village of Garrygala in southwest Turkmenistan. As a child, she exhibited interest in painting, and attended the experimental UShIV school for young talents in Ashgabat. Alexander Vladychik, the director of the school, would become her husband. Her art was based on the traditional Turkmen motifs, painted in bright colors.

In 1934, she received a commission for illustration of species collection of tulips by academician Nikolai Vavilov, on an order from the Netherlands. The work included several thousands of drawings. She returned to her home area of Garrygala, and started working as a laboratory technician in the Turkmenistan Research Station of the Federal Institute of Agriculture.

Mizgireva is credited with the 1938 discovery of Turkmenian mandrake, Mandragora turcomanica, rare species of mandrake from the Kopet-Dag area.