Yuri Petrovich Korshunov

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Yuri Petrovich Korshunov (22 September 1933 , Chernorechka Village near Novosibirsk —1 August 2002) 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 [1](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.