The presented article analyzes the scientific and popularization activities of the famous Soviet microbiologist, academician of medicine, professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Z.V. Ermolyeva, one of the founders of the Russian antibiotic industry. The main directions and forms of the scientist's popularization work are being reconstructed: giving lectures to doctors and ordinary citizens, publishing educational notes in periodicals, publishing popular science brochures, as well as participating in a number of events aimed at preserving and popularizing famous Russian scientists of the past. Unpublished documents from the Russian State Archive of Economics, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, and the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation were used as sources for the article. Popular science pamphlets by Z.V. Ermolyeva, as well as her articles and notes in the periodical press of the period under study, were used from the published sources.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Gorshenin (Sun,) studied this question.