Professor Nonna G. Kosheleva: in memory of an outstanding scientist and teacher

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences, and Professor Nonna G. Kosheleva, we remember the renowned scientist and physician, who made an invaluable contribution to Russian obstetrics. For nearly 60 years, her life was deeply intertwined with one of the country’s leading medical institutions, the Ott Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Nonna G. Kosheleva was born in 1925 in the town of Podolsk, the USSR. During World War II, she was evacuated to Yoshkar-Ola, the USSR. In 1944, she entered the First Moscow Medical Institute, graduating with honors in 1949.

Since 1954, her professional life and scientific career had been rooted in the city of Leningrad, the USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). In 1955, she entered graduate school at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology affiliated with the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, where she began advanced medical studies in perinatology. In 1959, Nonna G. Kosheleva successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “The Response of the Pregnant Animal and Fetus to Cooling at Different Stages of Pregnancy,” and in 1971, her second doctoral dissertation titled “Experimental and Clinical Antecedents for the Prevention of Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality from Complications in the First Half of Pregnancy.” Nonna G. Kosheleva is the author of five monographs and over 250 scientific papers (articles, guidelines, and manuals), which demonstrates her notable contribution to medical science and practice.