Natalia Pogodina, in memoriam

Earlier this year, Natalia Pogodina, the mammalian palaeontologist who studied Late Cenozoic small mammals of the Southern Trans-Urals region in the Ural Federal University, in the Yekaterinburg, Russia, died on 27 th of April, 2024 after several years long battle with cancer, which she fought with tenacity and dignity.Natalia Valentinovna Pogodina (born Ivakina) was born on 24th of March, 1971 in Novouralsk, an industrial city in the Sverdlovsk Region.Her father was Valentin Aleksandrovich Ivakin, an engineering physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1993).Valentin Ivakin greatly contributed to the development and improvement of isotope separation technology.Her mother, Galina Petrovna Ivakina, was an economist.Natalia's parents did not survive the covid pandemic in 2020.Natalia gave birth to two sons, Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Pogodin (born 1998) and Vsevolod Nikolaevich