Maria Vladimirovna Pospelova was born on January 3 , 1902 . In 1924 , she married Zhan Krishevich Shtrom , a veteran of World War I , in which service he had been seriously wounded . After graduating from the Leningrad Medical Institute , he worked in the Department of Parasitology at the Bacteriological Institute Pasteur in Leningrad , was head of the Department of Geomatology of the Department of Medical Parasitology at the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine , and the All-Union Institute of Helminthology as head of the Central Helminthological Museum . In 1941 during the Stalinist repressions , he was arrested and charged with anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda , and died on March 12 , 1942 in Prison No. 1 in Sverdlovsk . In 1956 , he was exonerated by the Moscow city prosecutor . He and Maria were the parents of a daughter . Pospelova-Shtrom died on January 1 , 1991 , 2 days before her 89th birthday . She is interred in Baikove Cemetery in Kiev , Ukraine near the grave of her father , entomologist Vladimir Petrovich Pospelov
Stalinist repressions
Great Purge
Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom