Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Biologists and paleontologists===
{{Main|Russian biologists}}

*[[Johann Friedrich Adam]], discovered the [[Adams mammoth]], the first complete [[woolly mammoth]] skeleton[[File:Andrei Bolotov.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Andrey Bolotov]]]]
*[[Karl Baer]], naturalist, founded the [[Russian Entomological Society]], formulated [[embryological]] [[Baer's laws]]
*[[Nikolai Bernstein]], neurophysiologist, coined the term "[[biomechanics]]"
*[[Andrey Bolotov]], major 18th-century [[agriculturist]], discovered [[dichogamy]], pioneered [[cross-pollination]]
*[[Alexander Chizhevsky]], founder of [[heliobiology]] and modern [[air ionification]]
*[[Andrey Famintsyn]], [[plant physiologist]], inventor of [[grow lamp]], developer of [[symbiogenesis]] theory
*[[Yuri Filipchenko]], entomologist, coined the terms ''[[microevolution]]'' and ''[[macroevolution]]''
*[[Johann Georg Gmelin]], the first researcher of [[Siberia]]n flora[[File:Ivanovsky.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Dmitry Ivanovsky]]]]
*[[Alexander Gurwitsch]], originated the [[morphogenetic field]] theory and discovered the [[biophoton]]
*[[Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov|Ilya Ivanov]], researcher of [[artificial insemination]] and the [[interspecific hybrid]]ization of animals, attempted to create a [[human-ape hybrid]]
*[[Dmitry Ivanovsky]], discoverer of [[virus]]es
*[[Georgii Karpechenko]], inventor of [[rabbage]] (the first ever non-sterile [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] obtained through [[crossbreeding]])
*[[Nikolai Koltsov]], discoverer of [[cytoskeleton]]
*[[V. L. Komarov|Vladimir Komarov]], [[plant geographer]], President of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences]], founder of the [[Komarov Botanical Institute]]
*[[Ilya Mechnikov]], pioneer researcher of [[immune system]], [[probiotics]] and [[phagocytosis]], coined the term ''[[gerontology]]'', [[Nobel Prize in Medicine]] winner
*[[Konstantin Merezhkovsky]], major [[lichenologist]], developer of [[symbiogenesis]] theory, a founder of [[endosymbiosis]] theory
*[[I. V. Michurin|Ivan Michurin]], [[pomologist]], [[Selection (biology)|selection]]ist and [[geneticist]], practiced [[hybrid (biology)|crossing]] of geographically distant plants, created hundreds of fruit [[cultivar]]s[[File:Michurin 1936.jpg|thumb|90px|[[I. V. Michurin|Ivan Michurin]]]]
*[[Alexander Middendorf]], zoologist and explorer, studied the influence of [[permafrost]] on living beings, coined the term ''[[radula]]'', prominent [[horse breeder]]
*[[Victor Motschulsky]], prominent researcher of [[beetle]]s
*[[Sergei Navashin]], discovered [[double fertilization]]
*[[Alexey Olovnikov]], predicted existence of [[Telomerase]], suggested the [[Telomere hypothesis of aging]] and the [[Telomere relations to cancer]]
*[[Aleksandr Oparin]], biologist and [[biochemist]], proposed the "[[Primordial soup]]" theory of [[life origin]], showed that many [[food production]] processes are based on [[biocatalysis]]
*[[Heinz Christian Pander]], embryologist, discovered [[germ layers]]
*[[Peter Simon Pallas]], polymath naturalist, explorer, discoverer of multiple animals, including the [[Pallas's cat]], [[Pallas's squirrel]], and [[Pallas's gull]]
*[[Ivan Pavlov]], founder of modern [[physiology]], the first to research [[classical conditioning]], Nobel Prize in Medicine winner[[File:Nikolai Vavilov NYWTS.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Nikolai Vavilov]]]]
*[[Vladimir Pravdich-Neminsky]], published the first [[EEG]] and the [[evoked potential]] of the mammalian brain
*[[Carl Schmidt (chemist)|Carl Schmidt]], researcher of biochemical crystal structures, proved the chemical similarity of animal and plant cells
*[[Boris Schwanwitsch]], entomologist, applied colour patterns of insect wings to [[military camouflage]] during World War II
*[[Ivan Sechenov]], founder of [[electrophysiology]] and [[neurophysiology]]
*[[Georg Wilhelm Steller]], naturalist, participant of [[Vitus Bering]]'s voyages, discoverer of [[Steller's jay]], [[Steller's eider]], extinct [[Steller's sea cow]] and multiple other animals
*[[Lina Stern]], pioneer researcher of [[blood–brain barrier]]
*[[Armen Takhtajan]], developer of [[Takhtajan system]] of [[flowering plant]] classification, major [[biogeographer]]
*[[Kliment Timiryazev]], plant physiologist and evolutionist, major researcher of [[chlorophyll]][[File:Vinogradsky.jpg|thumb|90px|[[Sergey Vinogradsky]]]]
*[[Lev Tsenkovsky]], pioneer researcher of the [[ontogenesis]] of [[lower plants]] and animals
*[[Mikhail Tsvet]], inventor of [[chromatography]]
*[[Nikolai Vavilov]], botanist and geneticist, gathered the world's largest collection of plant [[seed]]s, identified the [[centres of origin of main cultivated plants]]
*[[Sergey Vinogradsky]], microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist, pioneered the [[biogeochemical cycle]] concept, discovered [[lithotrophy]] and [[chemosynthesis]], invented the [[Winogradsky column]] for breeding of [[microorganism]]s
*[[Ivan Yefremov]], paleontologist, sci-fi author, founded [[taphonomy]]
*[[Sergey Zimov]], creator of the [[Pleistocene Park]]