Woman "who discovered Siberia to the world"
Maria Krasnozhenova In June, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maria Krasnozhenova (1871-1942) turned out, which was one of the first in Siberia to master the “non-female” (for the 19th century) profession-ethnographer, local historian, folklorist, and so successfully that in 1907 he became a member of the Russian Geographical Society. 30 years, Maria Krasnozhenova taught geography at the Krasnoyarsk female gymnasium.