Yuri Andreyevich Isakov (Russian: ?´??? ?????´???? ???´???; 7 February [O.S.
25 January] 1912 – 25 October 1988) was a Soviet ornithologist and biogeographer, who specialized in water birds and pioneered wetland conservation in the Soviet Union.
He headed the Laboratory of Biogeography at the USSR AS Institute of Geography from 1962 to 1983.