Ekaterina Lermontova

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontova (11 February 1889[1] – 9 January 1942) was a Russian Empire and Soviet paleontologist responsible for creating the first Cambrian stratigraphy of Siberia.

Species of fossil animals and algae, as well as Cambrian biostratigraphic divisions are named in her honor.

She was educated at the Women's Pedagogical Institute and graduated in 1910, then received a degree from the University of St. Petersburg in 1912.

Her research included trilobite fossils in Kazakhstan, Siberia, the Ural Mountains, and Middle Asia.

She was killed in the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.