Gennady Pavlovich Yakovlev (Russian: Геннадий Павлович Яковлев; 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.[1]