The article fills a gap in Russian historiography, which has not paid attention to the scientific discoveries and achievements made by women scientists during the Great Patriotic War. The article also summarizes information about the contributions made to their fields of knowledge by women mathematicians, physicists, representatives of the natural sciences and medicine, as well as historians. The author's goal is to highlight the distinctive features of the daily lives of women scientists from 1941 to 1945, when women had to take care of their families, provide them with everything they needed, and perform their usual professional duties, often replacing colleagues who had gone to the front in scientific and administrative positions. The author confirmed the working hypothesis that women's contribution to science remained underestimated not only during the war years, when it was not reflected in the media of the time, but also many decades later.
Acknowledgments: This research was conducted as part of the 2024—2026 Research Program of the Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, “Gender Studies of Urban and Rural Everyday Life: A Historical and Anthropological Perspective”.