Yuri Petrovich Korshunov (russian: Юрий Петрович Коршунов; 22 September 1933, Chernorechka Village near

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (, also ; rus, Новосиби́рск, p=nəvəsʲɪˈbʲirsk, a=ru-Новосибирск.ogg) is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the Russian Census ...

— 1 August 2002, Novosibirsk) was a

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entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who specialised in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

. Korshunov was a scientific worker of the Zoological Museum in the

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(Siberian branch of

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

). 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

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and many other works. He was a Member of the

Russian Entomological Society The Russian Entomological Society is a Russian scientific society devoted to entomology. 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 th ...

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In Memoriam site
Very extensive. Bibliography etc. * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Korshunov, Yuri Petrovich 1933 births 2002 deaths Soviet entomologists Soviet lepidopterists Russian lepidopterists National University of Kharkiv alumni Scientists from Novosibirsk Burials at Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery