Vereshchagin () is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Vereshchagina. It may refer to: Pavel Vereshchagin, a character from the 1970 Soviet movie White Sun of the Desert Nikolai Kuzmich Vereshchagin (1908–2008), Russian zoologist who specialized in the study of mammoths and other Arctic paleofauna, grandson of the war painter Vasily Vereshchagin Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904), Russian war painter The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin (1835–1909), Russian portraitist, history painter and illustrator, brother of Pyotr Igor Vereshchagin (b. 1952), Russian music and street photographer. See also Vereshchagino References Russian-language surnames