Yuri Petrovich Korshunov (; 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. References External links In Memoriam site Very extensive. Bibliography etc. 1933 births 2002 deaths Soviet entomologists Soviet lepidopterists Russian lepidopterists National University of Kharkiv alumni Scientists from Novosibirsk Burials at Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery