Dmitry Evstratievich Kharitonov (Russian: Дмитрий Евстратьевич Харитонов; 1896-1970),[1] also spelt Charitonov,[2] was the first native Russian arachnologist.

[1] In 1916 he founded the arachnological school of Perm State University, the oldest arachnology research group in Russia.

[1] The culmination of his work was the comprehensive Katalog der russischen Spinnen (en: Catalogue of Russian spiders), published bilingually in 1932, with an addition published in 1936.

[1] He grew up under the supervision of Dmitry Mikhailovich Fedotov, an arachnologist from St.

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