Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja () (1903–1958) was a Soviet botanist. Her family name is also transcribed as Lozina-Lozinscaia, and Lozina-Lozinskaja. She is the author or co-author of the botanical names of at least 216 taxa, including species of ''

Calligonum ''Calligonum'' is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae with about 80 species across the Mediterranean Sea region, Asia and North America. Description Plants of the genus ''Calligonum'' are shrubs, diffusely but irregularly branched, wi ...

Cortusa ''Cortusa'' is a formerly recognized genus in the family Primulaceae. It is now regarded as a synonym of the genus ''Primula''. It consisted of about 19 species of delicate, hardy, alpine perennials. The genus was named by the herbalist Matthio ...

Fragaria ''Fragaria'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits. There are more than 20 described species and many hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberries grown com ...

Micranthes ''Micranthes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the saxifrage family. It was formerly included within the genus ''Saxifraga'' until recent DNA evidence showed the members of what is now ''Micranthes'' are more closely related to '' Boykinia'' an ...

'' and ''

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'', as well as '' Galanthus woronowii'' and the

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'' Muscarimia muscari''. Two economically important crop plants were amongst her interests. She produced a monograph on ''

'' (rhubarb), suggesting that the genus had two primary centres of origin: the older being in China, the younger in Iran, spreading later into Central Asia. She also wrote a review of the genus ''

'' (strawberries). She contributed to a number of volumes of the ''Flora of the USSR'', such as Volume IX, both in the text and as an illustrator., search for "Lozina" In a memoir by the botanist Anastasia Semenova-Tian-Shanskaja, she is referred to as the favourite student of

Vladimir Komarov Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov ( rus, Влади́мир Миха́йлович Комаро́в, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kəmɐˈrof; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. ...

,, p. 248: "Агния Сергеевна Лозинская (Гага) — любимая ученица В. Л. Комарова" after whom the

Komarov Botanical Institute The Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (russian: Ботанический институт им. В.Л.Комарова РАН) is a leading botanical institution in Russia, It is located on Aptekarsky Island in St. Peter ...

is named and who was the senior editor of the ''Flora of the USSR'' until his death in 1945.

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1903 births 1958 deaths Soviet botanists Soviet women scientists {{USSR-botanist-stub