Sof'ya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya's contributions to the
development of the disciplines of mathematical logic and history of logic in the
USSR are enumerated. This is followed by a detailed sketch of the work of Soviet
logicians of which she gave an historical survey and exposition in her histories
of mathematical logic and foundations of mathematics from 1917 to 1947 and
from 1948 to 1957 in her two studies of 1948 and 1959. These two studies, taken
together, form the basis for a history of mathematical logic in the USSR and
reflects the situation formathematical logic in Russia during the the first 40
years of the Soviet period.