User:LesbianComrade/Valentina Galaktionovna Morozova

In the early 1940s, Morozona lost her father and 20 year old brother in the siege of Leningrad. She divorced in 1943 and from that relationship she had a single daughter. Later on in her life, Morozova would gain two grandchildren who she treated with kindness. She was known for being a charitable and kind person to her family and friends.

Her work in these years lead to the USSR awarding her the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

Her work would further include the dating of horizons and addressing Paleozoic correlation. She covered vast areas of the USSR such as the Emba River, Crimea, the East European Russian Platform, the Caucasus Mountains, Mangyshlak, Krasnovodsk, Kopet Dag Mountain Range, and the Talysh Mountains. These expeditions lead to many dangerous situations, such as encounters with Ukrainian Nationalists and injuries from falling.

Her wide influence was positioned in the fields of paleontology and geology. Morozova's research also included such fields as biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and micropaleontology.

Many believe that her work was ahead of its time due to the research and theories that she presented. For example, In 1960, around 20 years before the first recognized usage of this concept, she published on the topic of analyzing ecosystems for biostratigraphic research. Another example occurred in 1966, when she presented the idea that cosmic factors influenced foraminiferal evolution. While at the time many did not support this, it is a theory that is well accepted today.

As the chairperson of a group at the All-Union Coordination Commission on Micropaleontology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, her work became influential throughout the USSR, continuing into post-Soviet countries and internationally.

The genus Morozovella and the Eocene Zone M. morozovi were named after her due to contributions to micropaleontology.

The Journal Article Lower Scythia in the Western Front European Geographical Traditional at the Time of the Crusades by Leonid. S. Chekin was written in memory of Morozova due to her essential contributions to stratigraphical research in Western Europe.

In 1952, Morozova succumbed to illness after KGB interrogation, which eventually deterred the Ministry from further pursuing Morozova as a threat due to her inability to fully recover. Without a family that could help her through the illness, her colleagues supported her in this time.

Some theorize that due to illness and censorship some of her work remains unseen and unpublished or even unwritten entirely, though it is unknown to what extent.