Nathalie A. Desjatova-Shostenko (Ukrainian:Наталія Олексіївна Десятова-Шостенко, Russian: Наталья Алексеевна Десятова-Шостенко), later Nathalie A. Roussine, (1889-1968) was a Russian-French botanist noted for identifying at least 70 species of plants, many in the genus Thymus. Between 1925 and 1930, Natalie Shostenko was a director of Botany Department at Askania-Nova, after 1930 she then directed the Department of Geography at the Ukrainian Institute of Applied Botany. In 1944 she emigrated to France, due to return of the Soviet regime to Ukraine.
In 1932, botanist B.Fedtsch. published Nathaliella, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Central Asia, belonging to the family Scrophulariaceae in her honour.
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1889 births
1968 deaths
People from Vovchansk
French women scientists
20th-century French botanists
Ukrainian botanists
Ukrainian women botanists
French women botanists
