Vladimir Geptner

Geptner (left) with other zoology students of the Moscow State University, 1923

Vladimir Georgievich Geptner (or Heptner in English) (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Гептнер; 22 June 1901 – 5 July 1975) was a Russian and Soviet zoologist who studied the mammals of the USSR and was a pioneer of biogeographic research.