Yuri Korshunov

M.I.Falkovitsh, Yu.P.Korshunov and V.V.Dubatolov in Zoological Museum, Novosibirsk, December, 1988

Yuri Petrovich Korshunov (Russian: Юрий Петрович Коршунов; 22 September 1933, Chernorechka Village near Novosibirsk — 1 August 2002, Novosibirsk) was a Russian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Korshunov was a scientific worker of the Zoological Museum in the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences).

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 and many other works.He was a Member of the Russian Entomological Society.

Specimen of Parnassius felderi collected by Yuri Korshunov. This is a mistake: in 1969 Yu.P.Korshunov collected butterflies in Khakasia; he never collected in Amur basin... He have received P. felderi specimens from Chulkov {a comment by V.V.Dubatolov}

External links

• In Memoriam site Very extensive. Bibliography etc.
• "Yuri Korshunov Autobiography". jugan.boom.ru; archive.org. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• Korshunov Yu. P. "Years of Journeys". jugan.narod.ru. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• "Site in Memory of Yu. P. Korshunov (1933–2002)" (in Russian). jugan1.narod.ru. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• "The archive copy of Yu. Korshunov personal site" (in Russian). jugan.boom.ru. Retrieved 19 January 2015.