Yury Nikolaevitch Voronov (; 1 June 1874 in

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– 10 December 1931 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Russian

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He worked at the Botanical Garden in

. Alternative transcriptions of his name into the Latin alphabet include Jurij Nikolaewitch Woronow, as seen at the

International Plant Names Index The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It inclu ...

database. Between 1907 and 1919, he published ''Opredelitel rastenij Kavkaza i Kryma'' (1907-1919) with Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin, about plant species in the

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. David G. Frodin

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Voronov, Yury Soviet botanists 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire 1874 births 1931 deaths