Nina Strokata Karavanska

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Antonivna and the family name is Karavanska.

Nina Strokata Karavanska
Ніна Строката Караванська
Born
Nina Antonivna Strokata

(1926-01-31)31 January 1926
Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died2 August 1998(1998-08-02) (aged 72)
Denton, Texas, United States
OccupationsMicrobiologist and immunologist
SpouseSviatoslav Karavanskyi

Nina Antonivna Karavanska (née Strokata; 31 January 1926 – 2 August 1998) was a Ukrainian dissident, Soviet microbiologist and immunologist. She was a member of the dissident movement in the USSR, a co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and one of the leading human rights activists in Odesa during the Soviet period. She is the author of about 23 scientific papers in the field of clinical microbiology and immunology. She spoke Russian, Ukrainian, English, German, Polish, and Romanian. She was the wife of Sviatoslav Karavanskyi.

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