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. Archived from the original on 14 January 2002. 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. Archived from the original on 5 August 2001. Retrieved 19 January 2015.