Lyudmila Vladimirovna Stepanova (b. 1948) — head of the Gorky State Museum since 1984.
Education
Lobachevsky University (1975), Faculty of History and Philology.
Previous places of work
School, and from 1977 — the A. M. Gorky State Museum.
Area of scholarly and creative interests
Literary studies, Gorky studies, museology, literary local history.
Key facts of her work
Articles in the "Gorky Readings" collections (1990) and in local-history collections. One of the authors of the Literary Museum's "A. M. Gorky and His Native City" exhibition. Author of exhibitions at the Literary Museum.
Academic degrees, honorary titles, state awards
Laureate of the A. M. Gorky Regional Prize "For Participation in the International Project 'Russia and Germany — a Dialogue of Understanding'" (2001).
Membership in public and scholarly organizations
Member of the "Nizhny Novgorod Local Historian" society.
Hobbies
History of Russia, Orthodoxy, Russian culture; gardening and vegetable growing.