Ivan Lepyokhin

6 April] 1802, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian naturalist, zoologist, botanist and explorer.

He began his studies in the Academy of Sciences of Saint-Petersburg and gained his doctorate at faculty of medicine of the University of Strasbourg.

His extensive journals, revised and completed by Nikolay Ozeretskovsky, were published in 4 hefty volumes between 1771 and 1805.

Lepekhin was in charge of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden from 1774 until his death.

In 1804, his name was honoured in the name Lepechinia from South America, (in the family Lamiaceae) by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow,[1] and then in 1953, Mikhail Grigorevich Popov published a genus of flowering plants from Central Asia, belonging to the family Boraginaceae as Lepechiniella also in his honour.