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In February 8, 2025, the candidate of biological sciences (1973), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (1992), author of ca. 80 scientific publications, Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina, passed away. She was a friendly, sensitive and erudite person, sincerely devoted to botan...
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| description | In February 8, 2025, the candidate of biological sciences (1973), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (1992), author of ca. 80 scientific publications, Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina, passed away. She was a friendly, sensitive and erudite person, sincerely devoted to botanical science.Oleksandra worked at the M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine since 1984, holding the positions of senior and leading researcher. The major topic of her research activities were the resources of medicinal plants. She worked in the Department of Medicinal Botany, where she was the curator of the “Medicinal Plants” plot. After expeditions to the Danube Plains Nature Reserve, she created a motherwort of selected forms of sea buckthorn, which served as the basis for industrial culture. Later, while working in the Department of Natural Flora, she was the head of the Herbarium, where she organized the card index, conducted an inventory of several families, and processed the Far Eastern herbarium of Sigismund Kharkevich, which he donated to the botanical garden. |
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Plant Introduction, 105/106, 103–105 (2025)
© The Authors. This content is provided under CC BY 4.0 license.
CHRONICLE
In memoriam of Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina
Viktor Melnyk, Tetiana Bagatska *, Nataliia Chuvikina, Svitlana Didenko, Nataliia Kushnir,
Nadiia Dzhurenko
M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sadovo-Botanichna str. 1, 01103 Kyiv, Ukraine;
* bagatskayats@gmail.com
Received: 27.05.2025 | Accepted: 23.06.2025 | Published online: 02.07.2025
Abstract
In February 8, 2025, the candidate of biological sciences (1973), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine
in Science and Technology (1992), author of ca. 80 scientific publications, Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina,
passed away. She was a friendly, sensitive and erudite person, sincerely devoted to botanical science.
Oleksandra worked at the M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine since 1984,
holding the positions of senior and leading researcher. The major topic of her research activities were
the resources of medicinal plants. She worked in the Department of Medicinal Botany, where she was the
curator of the “Medicinal Plants” plot. After expeditions to the Danube Plains Nature Reserve, she created
a motherwort of selected forms of sea buckthorn, which served as the basis for industrial culture. Later,
while working in the Department of Natural Flora, she was the head of the Herbarium, where she organized
the card index, conducted an inventory of several families, and processed the Far Eastern herbarium of
Sigismund Kharkevich, which he donated to the botanical garden.
Keywords: Oleksandra Isaykina, chronicle, M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden
https://doi.org/10.46341/PI2025010
UDC 57
Authors’ contributions: All authors contributed equally.
Funding: None.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
In February 8, 2025, Oleksandra Petrivna
Isaykina, the candidate of biological sciences
(1973) and laureate of the State Prize of
Ukraine in Science and Technology (1992),
passed away.
Oleksandra Isaykina was born on
September 14, 1937, in the village of Novo-
Bogoroditske, Petropavlovsk district,
Voronezh region (Russian Federation), in the
family of an official.
In 1955–1957, after graduating from
secondary school, she worked as a librarian
and a primary school teacher. Without leaving
her job, she received higher education at
Voronezh State University, which she entered
in 1955. In 1961, she successfully graduated
from the Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences
of the University and received a diploma as
a biologist-botanist, biology, and chemistry
teacher in secondary school. Until 1964, she
worked as a biology and chemistry teacher at
various schools in the Voronezh region.
In 1964, Oleksandra started work at the
All-Union Scientific Research Institute of
Medicinal Plants (VILR), currently named
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute
104 Plant Introduction • 105/106
Melnyk et al.
of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (VILAR)
in Moscow. In VILR she worked as a junior
scientist and research associate of the
laboratory of natural plant resources. In
1968, she entered the graduate school of
this institution for absentee training. In 1973,
she defended her thesis on the topic “The
recourses of Immortal sandy (Helichrysum
arenarium (L.) Moench) in Ukraine and some
questions of his biology” and earned the degree
of candidate of biological sciences (PhD). Since
May 1980, she worked as a senior researcher at
the VILR laboratory. In 1982, she received the
academic title of senior researcher.
Oleksandra loved her work and did it with
great enthusiasm and interest. She proved
herself to be a good organizer and leader: she
headed special teams for expeditions that,
throughout the former Soviet Union, identified
resources, registered, and investigated the
mode of exploitation of medicinal plants
used in the pharmaceutical industry. Her
scientific achievements during this period
also included participating in developing
two pharmacopoeia articles, developing a
methodology for determining medicinal
plant resource reserves, and co-authoring
five instructions for collecting and drying
medicinal plants.
In 1984, Oleksandra married for the second
time and changed her employment and
residence place. She moved to Kyiv, where
she was employed as a senior researcher at
the Department of Medicinal Botany of the
National Botanical Garden of the National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (formerly –
Central Republican Botanical Garden of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
Her extensive experience in expeditionary
and organizational work came in handy at the
Botanical Garden. She became the curator of
the “Medicinal Plants” plot. She also actively
participated in expeditions across Ukraine.
In particular, during expeditionary surveys
in the Danube Plains Nature Reserve, about
100 samples of sea buckthorn fruits were
selected for further biochemical research to
identify the best combination of economically
valuable traits. There were about 1,700
cuttings of previously discovered forms of this
beneficial plant, which were collected, and a
mother plant of selected forms was created in
the Botanical Garden as the basis of industrial
culture. She participated in the “Republican
program for studying the form diversity of sea
buckthorn and its use for securing ravines”.
A biological reserve of sea buckthorn was
determined on Kuban Island, and specimens of
204 species of medicinal plants were collected
for the herbarium. This collection has been
transferred to the Herbariums of the National
Botanical Garden of the National Academy of
Sciences of the Ukraine and the Institute of
Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of
the Ukraine. In 1986, she was approved to be a
leading researcher.
In 1992, Oleksandra moved to the
Department of Natural Flora of the National
Botanical Garden of the National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine as the Head of the
Herbarium. In a new position, she organized
the herbarium collection, which moved
to a new building, restored the herbarium
card index, and processed the Far Eastern
herbarium of Sigismund Kharkevich, which
he gave as presents to the National Botanical
Garden. Based on the results of this work, she
made a detailed scientific report outlining
especially valuable specimens of Kharkevich’s
collection. She conducted an inventory
of Lamiaceae, Rosaceae, and Orchidaceae
herbarium collections and collected the
macrophytes of the middle Dnipro and Kaniv
reservoirs.
Figure 1. Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina (1937–2025).
Plant Introduction • 105/106 105
In memoriam of Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina
Пам’яті Олександри Петрівни Ісайкіної
Віктор Мельник, Тетяна Багацька *, Наталія Чувікіна, Світлана Діденко, Наталія Кушнір, Надія
Джуренко
Національний ботанічний сад імені М.М. Гришка НАН України, вул. Садово-Ботанічна, 1, Київ, 01103,
Україна; * bagatskayats@gmail.com
Восьмого лютого 2025 року померла кандидат біологічних наук (1973), лауреат Державної премії
України в галузі науки і техніки (1992), автор близько 80 наукових праць, Олександра Петрівна
Ісайкіна. Вона була доброзичливою, чуйною та ерудованою людиною, щиро відданою ботанічній
науці.
Олександра Петрівна працювала в Національному ботанічному саду імені М.М. Гришка НАН України
з 1984 року, займаючи посади старшого і провідного наукового співробітника. Головним напрямком
її наукової діяльності було ресурсознавство лікарських рослин. Вона працювала у відділі медичної
ботаніки, де була куратором ділянки “Лікарські рослини”. Після експедицій до заповідника “Дунайські
плавні” нею було створено маточник відібраних форм обліпихи, який використовувався як основа
промислової культури. Згодом, працюючи у відділі природної флори, вона завідувала Гербарієм, де
впорядкувала картотеку, провела інвентаризацію кількох родин, обробила далекосхідний гербарій
Сигізмунда Харкевича, який він передав у дар ботанічному саду.
Ключові слова: Олександра Ісайкіна, хроніка, Національний ботанічний сад імені М.М. Гришка
In 2000, with her active participation,
the Botanical Garden held the “Plants of the
Holy Scripture” exhibition. At that exhibition,
herbarium sheets were presented to a wide
audience as an illustration of quotes from the
Holy Scripture for the first time. Oleksandra
took an active part in the work of the Council of
Botanical Gardens and Arboretums of Ukraine.
For some time, she served as the Secretary
of the Council. For a long time, Oleksandra
Isaykina led the “Young Herbalists” group of
the Kyiv City House of Nature and conducted
practical classes for medical school students.
She never refused botany consultations for
young scientists, gave consultation from
resource science, and honestly reviewed their
abstracts.
Oleksandra Isaykina was the author and
coauthor of ca. 80 scientific works, including
the monograph “Dwarf everlastin Ukraine”
(Kyiv, Naukova Dumka, 1992). In 1992,
Oleksandra became a laureate of the State
Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
as a coauthor of the book “Medicinal plants:
Encyclopedic reference guide” (Kyiv, Ukrainian
Soviet Encyclopedia, 1989).
After retiring, Oleksandra continued to
communicate with colleagues at the Botanical
Garden, always taking the news of the
collective with interest.
Oleksandra had an incredible voice – a deep,
velvety contralto, and she became a member
of an amateur ensemble that often performed
at folk festivals in her district. Oleksandra
was friendly, sensitive, erudite, and sincerely
devoted to botanical science.
She will remain like that in our memory.
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| spelling | oai:ojs2.plantintroduction.org:article-16592025-07-27T21:03:35Z In memoriam of Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina Пам’яті Олександри Петрівни Ісайкіної Melnyk, Viktor Bagatska, Tetiana Chuvikina, Nataliia Didenko, Svitlana Kushnir, Nataliia Dzhurenko, Nadiia In February 8, 2025, the candidate of biological sciences (1973), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (1992), author of ca. 80 scientific publications, Oleksandra Petrivna Isaykina, passed away. She was a friendly, sensitive and erudite person, sincerely devoted to botanical science.Oleksandra worked at the M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine since 1984, holding the positions of senior and leading researcher. The major topic of her research activities were the resources of medicinal plants. She worked in the Department of Medicinal Botany, where she was the curator of the “Medicinal Plants” plot. After expeditions to the Danube Plains Nature Reserve, she created a motherwort of selected forms of sea buckthorn, which served as the basis for industrial culture. Later, while working in the Department of Natural Flora, she was the head of the Herbarium, where she organized the card index, conducted an inventory of several families, and processed the Far Eastern herbarium of Sigismund Kharkevich, which he donated to the botanical garden. Восьмого лютого 2025 року померла кандидат біологічних наук (1973), лауреат Державної премії України в галузі науки і техніки (1992), автор близько 80 наукових праць, Олександра Петрівна Ісайкіна. Вона була доброзичливою, чуйною та ерудованою людиною, щиро відданою ботанічній науці.Олександра Петрівна працювала в Національному ботанічному саду імені М.М. Гришка НАН України з 1984 року, займаючи посади старшого і провідного наукового співробітника. Головним напрямком її наукової діяльності було ресурсознавство лікарських рослин. Вона працювала у відділі медичної ботаніки, де була куратором ділянки “Лікарські рослини”. Після експедицій до заповідника “Дунайські плавні” нею було створено маточник відібраних форм обліпихи, який використовувався як основа промислової культури. Згодом, працюючи у відділі природної флори, вона завідувала Гербарієм, де впорядкувала картотеку, провела інвентаризацію кількох родин, обробила далекосхідний гербарій Сигізмунда Харкевича, який він передав у дар ботанічному саду. M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden of the NAS of Ukraine 2025-07-02 Article Article application/pdf https://www.plantintroduction.org/index.php/pi/article/view/1659 10.46341/PI2025010 Plant Introduction; No 105/106 (2025); 103-105 Інтродукція Рослин; № 105/106 (2025); 103-105 2663-290X 1605-6574 10.46341/PI105-106 en https://www.plantintroduction.org/index.php/pi/article/view/1659/1567 Copyright (c) 2025 Viktor Melnyk, Tetiana Bagatska, Nataliia Chuvikina, Svitlana Didenko, Nataliia Kushnir, Nadiia Dzhurenko http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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