The article is devoted to the report of Semyon Bentsianovich Okun', a professor of history at the Leningrad State University, which was read at a solemn meeting devoted to the 90th anniversary of founding the Higher Women's (Bestuzhev) courses in May 1968. The aim of the research is to highlight the jubilee tradition of the Bestuzhev courses graduates to celebrate the anniversaries of their Alma mater foundation with the support of the historians of the Leningrad historical school. Among the methods of research there are biographical, biobibliographic and historical. The novelty is studying the contribution of historian S. B. Okun' in the historiography of the Bestuzhev courses. The main conclusions are the constant scientific interest of the historians of the Leningrad-Petersburg historical school to the women's issue.