In memory of Olga Vladimirovna Tscherneva (2.12.1929–29.06.2023)

Olga Vladimirovna Tscherneva (1929–2023) was the oldest research worker of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the last of the authors of the “Flora of the USSR”, the long-term curator of the Central Asian sector of the Department of Herbarium of Higher Plants of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, the monographer of the most complicated genus Cousinia Cass. (Asteraceae), an authoritative expert on many genera of the family Asteraceae, a recognized expert in the international community of botanists and taxonomists. O.V. Tscherneva personified the continuity of different generations of botanists, as well as the traditions of the Tashkent school of taxonomy.