Tamara Nikiforova

Tamara Nikiforova (1928, Riga, Republic of Latvia – 201, Jurmala, Republic of Latvia)  – geologist, from 1957 to 1991 worked at the Norilsk Mining and metal Complex and at the Norilsk Institute of Industry.

Senior Lecturer, member of the Russian National Mineralogical Society. First to discover deposits of a type of copper sandstone in the basin of the River Yenisey.