birich tatyana vasilievna. with their work, they placed photographic portraits in a prominent place. what pride, science, elite. event for the young soviet republic then it was really important that the first graduate students graduated from the academy of sciences. 17 applicants for academic degrees defended their dissertations, including women alexandra ivanovna voronova. she became the first woman among belarusian historians to receive a candidate of historical sciences. attention to the dissertation of the young scientist tatyana birich is a special subject. research, eye diseases, problems of the optic nerve, the fight against glaucoma, protection has become akin to sensations, and not only because the topic is relevant. for the first time in the republic the woman became an ophthalmologist. a business trip to odessa to the institute of experimental ophthalmology for tatyana birich became very important professionally . it was there that academician vladimir petrovich felatov worked. outstanding ophthalmol