Abstract
A biography of A.V. Martynov, a famous Russian trichopterologist and insect morphologist, taxonomist, paleontologist, and phylogeneticist is briefly outlined and illustrated by photographs never published before. An important input into insect faunistics, ecology and biogeography, as well as into taxonomy and faunistics of freshwater Crustacea made by Martynov is acknowledged. A.V. Martynov founded and developed Russian trichopterology and promoted it at the world scale. An original system and phylogenetic scheme of the insects created by him is accepted worldwide and continues to influence modern publications. He founded the first, and for many decades the only, worldwide paleoentomological laboratory which eventually triggered the current paleoentomological boom.
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