Yevgenia Georgievna Pobedimova (1898-1973) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and plant collector noted for describing over 270 species in Russia, Ukraine and North Asia.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] She received a Ph.D. in biological sciences from the Komarov Botanical Institute in Leningrad in the late 1930s and although in 1941 she was appointed as a senior research fellow, she was transferred to war work.
During the Second World War she initially worked in a hospital in Leningrad and then in 1942 was evacuated first to Frunze and finally to Kazan.
She was involved in production of monographs about several plant families, including Apocynaceae, Thymelaeaceae and Balsaminaceae, as well as working on numerous genera for the Botanical Atlas and the List of Plants of the Herbarium of the Flora of the USSR.
In the last years of her life, she published monographs of the genera Honckenya, Cakile, and Cochlearia.