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O.L. Rossolimo was born in Moscow in 1927 in the
family of biologists. Her farther L.L. Rossolimo was acknowledged
hydrobiologist, head of the Kosino Biological Station, Dean of the
Biological Faculty of the Moscow University during 2d World War.
She graduated from that faculty in 1952, has been working in the
Museum since 1957. Became director of this Museum in 1970.
Her research interests are in diversity of mammals: her doctoral
dissertation was on their geographic variation. But principal affair
of all her life was just the Museum. The latter undergone fundamental
reconstruction during 1970-80s including complete renewal of all
exhibitions and collection rooms. O. Rossolimo managed annual publication
of Proceedings [Trudy] of the Museum and started a new one, the
Zoological Studies. She stimulated theoretical investigations in
taxonomy and phylogenetics, in addition to traditional for Museum
faunal studies. Due to this, the Museum gained the official status
of a research institution at the University, and O. Rossolimo was
elected a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
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