Elizaveta Dmitrievna Soshkina (1889-1963) - Soviet geologist da burbushin halittu, gwani a Devonian da Silurian murjani, Doctor na Biological Sciences (1946), Farfesa (1948). An haife ta a ranar 5 ga Oktoba (17), 1889 a cikin garin Ryazan, lardin Ryazan, a cikin dangin Burgeois. Tana da yaya biyu mata uku. A 1909 ta sauke karatu daga Mariinsky Women Gymnasium a Ryazan, tare da lambar zinariya. Ya yi karatu tare da V.P. Ekimetskaya. A 1915 ta sauke karatu daga na halitta kimiyyar sashen na kimiyyar lissafi da kuma ilmin lissafi Faculty na Moscow Higher Courses ga mata da digiri na 1st. Ta ci gaba da karatun digiri na biyu a Sashen Geology (1916-1918). Farfesanta su ne: Chaplygin, Sergei Alekseevich (darektan), Zelinsky, Nikolai Dmitrievich, Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich, Menzbir, Mikhail Alexandrovich, Sushkin, Pyotr Petrovich, Koltsov, Nikolai Konstantinovich, Golenkin, Mikhail Ilyich, da kuma kananan malamai a wancan lokacin sun kasance. Kots, Alexander Fedorovich, Nametkin, Sergey Semyonovich, Alekhin, Vasily Vasilyevich, Meyer, Konstantin Ignatievich, Krechetovich, Lev Melkhizedekovich, Missuna, Anna Boleslavovna (mataimaki), Chernov, Alexander Alexandrovich da sauransu.