Rogachevskaya (Rogatschewskaya) Ludmila Solomonovna (b. 1927, Riga) — historian. Doctor of Historical Sciences (1972).

Ludmila Rogachevskaya was born into the family of a diplomat. After graduating from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University (1950), she began working at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from 1968 — the Institute of the History of the USSR, and from 1992 — the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Rogachevskaya is the author of works on the history of the Soviet working class, the history of factories and plants, industrialization, and the economic development of the USSR. She participated in the preparation of several major multi-volume collective publications, including: History of the USSR from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, vol. 8 (Moscow, 1970), History of the Soviet Working Class, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1984) and vol. 5 (Moscow, 1988). She also took part in the publication of several documentary collections.

Selected works:

From the History of the Working Class of the USSR in the First Years of Industrialization. 1926–1927(Из истории рабочего класса СССР в первые годы индустриализации. 1926-1927) (Moscow, 1959)

The Elimination of Unemployment in the USSR. 1917–1930 (Ликвидация безработицы в СССР. 1917-1930) (Moscow, 1973)

Socialist Competition in the USSR. Historical Essays. 1917–1970(Социалистическое соревнование в СССР. Ист. очер­ки. 1917-1970) (Moscow, 1977)