Ivan Vasilyevich Novopokrovskiy (Russian: Иван Васильевич Новопокровский; 7 December 1880, Mikhaylov — 30 May 1951, Rostov-on-Don) was a botanist and a specialist in the field of botanical geography and systematics of higher plants.
Ivan Vasilyevich Novopokrovskiy was born on 7 December 1880 in Mikhaylov (present-day Ryazan Oblast).
[1] From 1934 to 1944 he worked in Rostov-on-Don State University (RSU), where he was the head of the Department of Botanics and Dean of the Faculty of Biology.
In 1936 he founded (with the participation of Professors A. Flerov and V. N. Vershkovsky) Herbarium of the Rostov University.
Since 1945 he worked at the Botanical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Leningrad), where he was in charge of the Central Asian herbarium.