Article is devoted the analysis of scientific creativity of the candidate of historical sciences of the senior lecturer of the Irkutsk state university of V. M. Andreeva who has noted in 2008 70-year-old anniversary. V. M. Andreeva's name well-known among researchers of history of a political exile to Siberia. Its dissertation (1971), and also the basic quantity of scientific articles are devoted problems of stay of populists in a Siberian exile in last quarter of XIX century – to an establishment of number and a social composition condemned, to their mutual relations with the Siberian society, to methods and forms of struggle against administration for the rights.