Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview

P. Ya. Polubarinova-Kochina
Pelageya Polubarinova was born in Astrakhan, a city is
situated in the delta of the Volga River,100 km from the
Caspian Sea. Her father Yakov Stepanovich Polubarinov,
an accountant, discovered Pelageya’s particular interest in
science and decided to go to St Petersburg where se
graduated from Pokrovskii Women’s Gymnasium.
In 1918, after father’s death, Pelageia
Polubarinova took a job at the Main Geo-
physical Laboratory to bring in enough
money to allow her to continue her ed-
ucation. She worked under supervision
of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Friedmann
(1888–1925). BIRS, Canada, July 2007 – p. 39