In Memory of Olga Gennadyevna Lopatovskaya

This article presents the basic research, administrative and teaching activities of Olga Gennadyevna Lopatovskaya, Professor of the Department of Soil Science and Land Resource Assessment, the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Irkutsk State University, and Doctor of Biological Sciences. The article also provides brief information about her studies at the Irkutsk State University, her work at the I.V. Nikolaev East Siberian Soil Science Museum, and her promotion to Associate Professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of the Irkutsk State Pedagogical University. The research conducted by O.G. Lopatovskaya contributed significantly in obtaining new knowledge about the pedohalogenesis and the properties of saline soils, ecological and meliorative systems of Siberia, about soil-ecological assessment of agricultural lands, and ecological and meliorative zoning. Professor Lopatovskaya O.G. was also very active in such research areas as related to mineral spring discharge and the distribution of saliferous rocks, landscape complexes, and landscape-adaptive soil conservation and resource-saving agriculture systems, as well as solutions for their reclamation and melioration using GIS technologies and geoinformation mapping of eroded and saline lands.