Russian ethnographer and anthropologist
Nataliia Ivanova Lebedeva (July 19, 1894 – May 19, 1978) was a Soviet ethnographer and anthropologist known for her studies of textiles in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. She was born and died in Ryazan.[1] She was a pioneer in the study of material culture to show evidence of a people's development and history. She studied the weaving, spinning, typology, and buildings of Eastern Slavic peoples.
- ^ Joy Harvey and Marilyn Ogilvie (1 January 2000). "Nataliia Ivanova Lebedeva". In Marilyn Ogilvie; Joy Harvey (eds.). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Vol. 2. New York and London: Routledge. p. 760. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.
