Aleksandra Troitskaya
Aleksandra Troitskaya | |
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| Born | Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya 26 May 1896 |
| Died | 19 April 1979 (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv National Medical University |
| Occupation | doctor |
Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya (Russian: Алекса́ндра Серге́евна Тро́ицкая; 1896–1979) was a Soviet microbiologist-leprologist, candidate of medical sciences. She was an author of cancer vaccine,[1][2] and an honorary citizen of Kaluga (1996).[3]
Biography
Troitskaya was born in Bryankovo (now in Suvorovsky District of Tula Oblast), grew up in Kaluga.[3][4]
In 1917 she graduated from the Kaluga Diocesan School (she also studied with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky). In 1920s she worked as a teacher.[3][5][6]
In 1934 she graduated from Kharkiv National Medical University. In 1940-1951 a microbiologist, from 1946 Senior Researcher of the Astrakhan Leprosarium.[7]
In 1946, at the Kazan Federal University, she defended her thesis on pain biotherapy in the treatment of leprosy.[8]
Since 1951 (after retirement) she worked as a microbiologist in the laboratory of the Kaluga Oncologic Dispensary.[7]
She noted the presence of bacteria in human blood, and used that information to develop a treatment to fight cancer.[9]She discovered new strains of corynebacteria — Corynebacterium Krestovnikova / Troitskaya.[10][11]
Andrei Sakharov, who tried to use Troitskaya to treat his first wife's cancer, wrote about her in his memoirs.[12]
Died
Troitskaya died in 1979. Buried on Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Kaluga.
References
- ↑ Трагическая судьба одного открытия
- ↑ Вакцина против рака – открытие и закрытие
- 1 2 3 Тайна Александры Троицкой
- ↑ Ольга Коновалова (2024-05-23). "На фронтах милосердия". Калужская неделя. Retrieved 2025-12-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ KOZHEVNIKOVA, Natalia (March 6, 2015). "«Тайна» Александры Троицкой". www.vest-news.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2026-08-23.
- ↑ Мария Тоболова (2023-11-22). "Три выдающиеся епархиалки: Благовещенская, Никольская, Троицкая". Православие.ru. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - 1 2 "Лаборатория инновационных биомедицинских технологий". Archived from the original on 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ↑ Александра Троицкая. Изобретатель и рационализатор
- ↑ KULAKOVA, Tamara (May 22, 2015). "Вакцина против рака – открытие и закрытие". www.vest-news.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2026-08-23.
- ↑ RussianPatents.com – free online patent search by keyword, and category numbers in Russia Base inventions and the USSR
- ↑ "О препарате Крестовниковой-Троицкой (КТ)". Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
- ↑ Андрей Сахаров (1969-02-25). "Воспоминания. Часть 2. Глава 3". memuarist.com. Retrieved 2025-12-14.
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Bibliography
- Village News (1974)
- Mikhail Gavrilov. The Adventures of Capricorn (2017) ISBN 9785040064168
- Evgeny Dobrenko. Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics (2020) ISBN 9785444813348