Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya was a Soviet poet and writer. She is best-known as friend and lover of Nobel Prize-winning writer Boris Pasternak during the last 13 years of his life and the inspiration for the character of Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957).
Olga Evgenevna Kryuchkova, pseudonym Olivia Claymore, a Russian historical and mystical writer.
To date, Kryuchkova is the author of 25 novels and published by "Veche".
Olga Larionova is the pen name of Olga Nikolayevna Tideman, a Russian science fiction author who began in the Soviet era. Her debut novel was A Leopard from the top of Kilimanjaro from 1965. Her story A Tale of Kings was in the anthology Earth and Elsewhere, which gained her notice in the West. She is one of the few successful female Russian science fiction writers of her generation. She won the Aelita Prize in 1987 and remains one of the few women to win it as an individual writer.
Olga Borisovna Lepeshinskaya born as Protopopova, was a Soviet pseudo-scientist, who advanced her career as a biologist in the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences through fraudulent claims and personal ties with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Trofim Lysenko and Alexander Oparin. She rejected genetics and was an advocate of spontaneous generation of life from inanimate matter.
Olga Masters née Lawler was an Australian writer, journalist, novelist and short story writer. Masters' children went on to be notable figures in journalism, media and film making.
