Scientific and editorial activity of the Soviet microbiologist Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermolyeva

This article for the first time reconstructs an unknown side in the scientific biography of a prominent Soviet microbiologist, academician of medicine, professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermolyeva (1898–1974), related to her activities in the implementation of editorial guidance in the publication of collections of scientific articles, periodical collections of translations, reviews and abstracts of foreign periodical literature, as well as scientific and technicalthe practical journal «Antibiotics». The main topic of the publications in which Z.V. Ermolyeva acted as a scientific editor, there was a problem of antibiotics (penicillin, streptomycin and a number of others) and interferon. Unpublished documents of the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Russian State Archive of Economics, as well as materials from collections of articles and periodicals published in the 1940s and 1970s under the editorship of Z.V. Ermolyeva, are used as the main sources. The presented publication analyzes the nature of scientific publications and their thematic content. The importance of the scientific and practical journal «Antibiotics» for the science and practice of medicine is characterized, the nature of its issue, the publication of articles and the geography of the authors and their institutions that they represented are highlighted; the composition of the editorial board and the editorial board, as well as the role of Z.V. Ermolyeva in the management of the journal is considered.