Nina Mikhailovna’s life path was long and difficult, but at the same time, her active life in science, which she loved wholeheartedly, unfortunately, turned out to be extremely short-lived. After graduating from the Higher Women's Courses (Bestuzhev's), from 1914 to 1930 - pedagogical and scientific work; it was a period of formation and choice of path; Over the years she has published 25 scientific papers. In 1931, the first arrest and exile in Rybinsk for three years. At the end of 1933 N.M. returned to Leningrad. She works enthusiastically at the Institute. Lesgafta, maintains creative contacts with astronomers at the Pulkovo Observatory, and participates in preparations for the first conference on the study of the stratosphere. The villainous murder of S. M. Kirov in December 1934 served as a signal for a new wave of arrests among the Leningrad intelligentsia. Nina Mikhailovna shared the tragic fate of many. At the beginning of 1935, she was arrested because, due to her religious beliefs, she refused to sign a collective letter demanding retribution for the murderer of S. M. Kirov. N.M. was exiled and spent about ten years in camps and administrative exile. In 1944, at the invitation of Academician V.G. Fesenkov, she arrived in Alma-Ata and began working at the Institute of Astronomy and Physics of the Kazakh branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Soon she defended her Ph.D. thesis based on materials from twilight research carried out back in the early 30s (N.M.’s monograph was published at the suggestion of Academician S.I. Vavilov in the “Proceedings of the Commission for the Study of the Stratosphere” in 1936, when N.M. . was already in exile). In Alma-Ata, N.M. published 6 scientific articles and prepared a doctoral dissertation for defense. The defense was supposed to take place in the spring of 1949 at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, but it never took place. N.M. writes in her autobiography that her health deteriorated and she had to give up protection. It is worth recalling the post-war “purge” of personnel at the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR that took place at that time, during which a number of employees were fired, including N.M. Perhaps this was the reason for the cancellation of the defense, although reviews from opponents V.G. Fesenkov, I. A. Khvostikova and V.P. Vetchinkina were wonderful. In 1957, N.M. moved to Yelets to live with relatives, where she lived until the end of her life.