Anna Semenovna Schchian (Russian: Анна Семёновна Шхиян, 9 July 1905 – 15 May 1990) was a Soviet botanist, working in the Tbilisi Botanical Institute.
At this time she engaged in significant scientific research, including floristic and geobotanical expeditions across the Caucasus, working up systematic descriptions of complex genera and families, and defending a dissertation.
A great deal of work was done by her on activities of general economic importance to the people of Transcaucasia, this included studying the certification process of winter pastures in a number of districts in the Azerbaijan SSR, conducting a geobotanical survey of the forests of the southern Caucasus, mapping and listing of the plants of region, and conducting research into wild fruiting trees of the forests of eastern Georgia.
Her master's thesis, which she defended in 1944, was devoted to the systematics and geography of the Caucasian populations of grape hyacinth (Muscari), a work which remains scientifically current.
From 1975 she lived in Erevan and worked in the fields of systematics and geography at the Botanical Institute of the Armenian branch of the Academy of Sciences.