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Yuri Petrovich Korshunov (russian: Юрий Петрович Коршунов; 22 September 1933, Chernorechka Village near
Novosibirsk — 1 August 2002, Novosibirsk) was a
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
entomologist who specialised in
Lepidoptera.
Korshunov was a scientific worker of the Zoological Museum in the
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals
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(Siberian branch
of
Russian Academy of Sciences
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).
He wrote ''Butterflies of the Western Siberian Plain. A key'' (1985), ''A catalogue of Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) of the USSR'' (1972), The ''Butterflies of Asian part of Russia'' (1995, co-author P. Gorbunov), ''Butterflies of the Urals, Siberia and Far East. Key and annotations'' (2000), parts of the
Red Data Book of the Russian Federation
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and many other works. He was a Member of the
Russian Entomological Society
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The Society was founded in 1859 in St. Petersburg by Karl Ernst von Baer, Johann Friedrich von Brandt who was then the director of the Zoological Museum of t ...
.
References
External links
In Memoriam siteVery extensive. Bibliography etc.
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1933 births
2002 deaths
Soviet entomologists
Soviet lepidopterists
Russian lepidopterists
National University of Kharkiv alumni
Scientists from Novosibirsk
Burials at Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery