Tags: Entomologist.
This article is about the 19th-century lepidopterist Nikolay Yershov. For the Bolshevik leader Nikolay Yershov (1892-1928) see Nikolay Yershov (revolutionary)Nikolaj Grigor’jevitsch Erschov also spelled Erschoff (Russian: Николай Григорьевич Ершов) (b. 23 April 1837 Moscow; d. 12 March 1896 Saint Petersburg) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.