Gennady Yakovlev

Gennady Pavlovich Yakovlev (; 7 June 1938 – 12 January 2024) was a Russian botanist, pharmacognosist, phytochemist. He was a director of Saint-Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy (1992–2004), and an expert in Fabaceae taxonomy. Yakovlev died on 12 January 2024, at the age of 85.

Plants authored by G. P. Yakovlev Acosmium panamense (Benth.) Yakovlev Chamaecrista takhtajanii Barreto et Yakovlev Calia conzatti (Stanley) Yakovlev (Styphnolobium conzatti Sousa; Rudd ) Sophora gibbosa Yakovlev (S. gibbosa O.Kuntze as cited by Tsong and Ma 1981 ) Sophora tomentosa subsp australis Yakovlev

Works Заметки по систематике и географии рода Sophora L. и близких родов. [Zametki po sistematike i geographii roda Sophora L. i blizkikh rodov. Systematical and geographical studies of genus Sophora L. and allied genera] // Труды Ленинградского химико-фармацевтического института. 1967 21: 42-62. Yakovlev, G.P.; Syrovezhko, N.V. (1967). [Nekotorye osobennosti stroeniyasemyan roda Sophora L. i blizkikh k nemu rodov v svyazi s ikh sistematikoi i filogeniei] Trudy Leningradskogo khimico-farmacevticheskogo instituta. 21:90-98. Yakovlev, G.P.; O.A. Svyazeva. 1987. Zametki o vidakh sektsii Caragana roda Caragana Lam. (Fabaceae) Novosti syst. Vyssh. Rast. 24:126 Yakovlev G.P.; Sytin A.K.; Roskov Yu.R. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. A checklist. Published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew., 482-503