Larisa Anatolyevna Popugayeva (Russian: Лари́са Анато́льевна Попуга́ева, IPA: [ɫɐˈrʲisə ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvnə pəpʊˈɡa(j)ɪvə]; lit.

In 1937, after the death of her father, together with her mother and born in Odessa, her sister Irina, Larisa returned to Leningrad.

Larisa Grincevich met the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, where she, together with other alumni excellent students from Leningrad schools was sent on a special voucher to the All-Union agricultural exhibition.

From April 1942 to July 1945, was a volunteer in the Air Defense Division of Moscow, the commander of the gun crew, was promoted to the rank of junior sergeant.

In June 1954, Larisa Popugayeva and her assistant Fedor Belikov discovered a kimberlite surface in Yakutia, following two months of labor intensive searches along the shores of the Daldyn River.