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Dmitry Litvinov

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Dmitry Ivanovich Litvinov (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Литвинов; 29 December 1854 [O.S. 17 December 1854] – 5 July 1929) was a Russian botanist responsible for the naming of a large variety of East European and Asian plants. He is known as the author of the concept of glacial refugia for the plants growing on chalk and limestone slopes of the banks of rivers in the European part of Russia. Together with Vasily Zinger, he discovered the natural monument Galichya Gora in Central Russia (river Don) inhabited by relict plants.