Lyudmyla Semenivna Milyayeva was a Ukrainian art historian and university teacher. She was a research fellow from 1949 to 1962 and was the head of the department of pre-rev. of art of the Kyiv State Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts between 1964 and 1966. Milyayeva worked as a senior lecturer, then an associate professor and finally a professor of the Department of History and Theory of Art at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. She was the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific works. Milyayeva was the recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine, the Order of Merit, Third Class and the Order of Princess Olga, Third Class.