Abstract
On October 3, 2022, at the age of 43, the leading researcher of the Arthropod Laboratory of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences Daniil Sergeevich Aristov (Figs 1, 2) died suddenly. He was born on January 27, 1979 in the city of Perm (former USSR) in a family of scientists. His father, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergey Nikolayevich Aristov, worked as a chief researcher at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and his mother, Tatyana Aleksandrovna Aristova, was a linguist engineer and was engaged in scientific translation. As a child, Daniel was interested in biology, read a lot of popular science literature, and his favorite author was Gerald Malcolm Durrell. Daniil was a creative person: while studying at school, he went to the children’s painting studio and the creative workshop “Woodcarving” and participated with his works in exhibitions in Perm and other cities of Russia.