Maria Bulgakova

Maria Bulgakova (9th of February 1924, Kyiv Governorate, Ukrainian SSR – 13th of January 2019, Riga, Republic of Latvia)  – a philologist, a guide, a writer, a participant of the World War II.

M. Bulgakova was born in Ukraine. During the war she took part in the military actions as a nurse, was heavily wounded and discharged from the active service. As a participant of the World War II M. Bulgakova was awarded orders and medals. In 1946 M. Bulgakova studied in Riga at the faculty of vocals of the Jāzeps Mediņš Musical School, afterwards - at the philological faculty of the Latvian State University.

Since 1956 she had been working as a teacher of Russian language at the Construction College. In 1970 M. Bulgakova finished guide courses and began guiding tours and excursions. These activities became the sense of her life. M. Bulgakova developed many interesting routes across the former Soviet Union – the Far East, Sakhalin, Baikal etc. After retirement she devoted a lot of time to writing and published four books.

Inna Bergman