Sofya Georgiyevna Tamamshyan

Sofya Georgiyevna Tamamshyan (1901–1981) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and plant taxonomist noted for describing 7 genera and more than 50 species, and for authoring over 120 works.

Since 1946, Sofya Georgievna studied and worked at the Botanical Institute (BIN) of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, was preparing her doctoral dissertation "Ancestors and descendants of the umbrella family ."

For a long time, Sofia Georgievna worked at the Herbarium of the BIN and studied samples of Apiaceae and Asteraceae families.

Sofya Georgievna has published many articles in the Botanical Journal, Soviet Botany, and Taxon.

She was honoured in 1996, when botanists Pimenov & Kljuykov published Tamamschjanella, which is a genus of flowering plants from Europe and Central Asia, belonging to the family Apiaceae.