History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back THE M.V. PAVLOVA CONTRIBUTION TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PALEONTOLOGY AS A SCIENCE AND AS A SUBJECT OF TEACHING R.A. Fando The article is devoted to the scientific biography of M.V. Pavlova. She was one of the first women in Russia, who not only received higher education abroad, but managed to become a teacher first at the A.L. Shanyavsky University, and then at the Moscow University, at a time when women's access to teaching in higher education was almost closed. M.V. Pavlova was the founder of the scientific school and a pioneer in the organization of higher education in the field of paleontology. The achievements of this scientific school entered the history of world paleontology and formed the basis of fundamental theories of the origin of animals of various systematic groups. Keywords: M.V. Pavlova, history of paleontology, teaching of paleontology, A.L. Shanyavsky Moscow city public University, Moscow state University, scientific school. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.10.2019.908 Contacts: - Pp. 28-34.