Dariya Nikitichna Dobroczajeva (Ukrainian: Дарія Микитівна Доброчаєва; March 30, 1916, Khyshnyky, now Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine – December 1, 1995, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian botanist and university teacher.
Biography
Dobroczajeva was the head of the Botanical Museum of the Botanical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She brought back numerous herbarium materials from expeditions in Ukraine and private trips to various countries, donating more than 30,000 herbarium sheets to the Institute of Botany. For a long time, she headed the herbarium exchange fund, significantly expanded her connections to botanical institutions in many countries of Europe, Asia and America, and intensified her work to replenish the world flora collection.[1] Her area of specialty was Spermatophyte.[2]
In 1969, Dobroczajeva was a recipient of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR for Science and Technology. In 1982, she received the Honored Worker in Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR. The standard author abbreviation Dobrocz. is used to identify that person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
