Аннотация
Earlier this year we have prematurely lost Lyuba Tyutkova, the mammalian paleontologist who studied Late Cenozoic small mammals of Central Asia in the Institute of Zoology, Almaty, Kazakhstan.Lyubov Anatolievna Tyutkova was born on 13 th of February, 1957 in the Kzyl-Orda Region of Kazakhstan.After the secondary school she worked as a laboratory assistant and in parallel entered the extra-mural course of the Biological Faculty of the Kazakhstan State University named after S.M. Kirov (currently named after Al-Farabi) in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan.Lyuba defended her course and graduate theses under the guidance of Dr. Pavel F. Savinov.After the graduation from the University in 1980, Lyuba Tyutkova entered the Laboratory of Paleobiology in the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (since 1990s, Institute of Zoology of Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Republic).In the laboratory Lyuba studied Pliocene and Quaternary lagomorphs and rodents under the guidance of Savinov.In 1980s Lyuba had two traineeship programs curated by Professor Igor Mikhailovich Gromov in the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.In 1990 Tyutkova defended the doctoral thesis (candidate of biological sciences) Late Pliocene lagomorphs and rodents of Southeastern Kazakhstan.Among most important achievements of L.Tyutkova is the study of Plio-Pleistocene small mammals from