Draft:Nadejda Akjigitova

Nadejda Ibragimovna Akjigitova (Надежда Ибраһим кызы Акҗегетова, born in 1928 ) is a Soviet and Uzbek botanist, geobotanist, ecologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences.

Biography
She was born on December 8, 1928, in the village of Kuteyevka, Belinsky district, Penza oblast, in the Uzbek SSR. Since 1955 she worked as employee of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbek SSR. Defended her candidate's thesis "Plants as indicators of soil salinisation (in conditions of Central Fergana)" ("Растения как индикаторы засоления почв (в условиях Центральной Ферганы)"), Tashkent, 1961. In 1985 Nadejda Akjigitova was the head of the laboratory. In 1982 she received the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences.

Research
She created works on the study of patterns of formation and distribution of plant communities and geobotanical mapping.