Kira Zahurs'ka-Arkhimovych (Кіра Загурська-Архімович, also spelled Arkhymovych/Архимович) was a Ukrainian and Ukrainian American botanist who specialized in tomato breeding.

She was born in what is now the village of Uhroidy (today Krasnopil' raion, Sumy oblast', Ukraine) in 1902. She completed the Women's Gymnasium in Sumy in 1919, and continued her studies at the Kyiv Agricultural Institute and the Moscow Institute of Sugar Industry. She worked at the Ukrainian Fruit and Berry Scientific Research Institute in Kyiv-Kytaiv (Український науково-дослідний плодово-ягідний інститут). She married fellow-agronomist and botanist Oleksander Arkhimovych. In 1943 they moved to Austria. At the end of the war, they lived in Munich, where she was involved in the Shevchenko Scientific Society (НТШ), and was among the organizers of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (УВАН) and the Ukrainian Technical Husbandry Instutite (Український технічно-господарський інститут), where she worked on tomato breeding and wrote her doctoral thesis.

They were not able to immediately resettle in the West, but her husband obtained a recommendation in 1948 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that allowed him to obtain a position with the Spanish seed company "Prodes" in Valladolid, where he worked on sugar beet and potato breeding. Kira assisted him in this work while also continuing her independent work on tomato breeding. She arrived in the United States in 1952 and found work at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.

[sources: Oleksander Arkhimovych papers (Shevchenko Scientific Society, New York); esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=15255; Items in this collection]