Vasiliǐ Matveievitch Czernajew (Russian: Василий Матвеевич Черняев; April 2, 1794 – March 6, 1871) was a Russian botanist responsible for collecting and describing at least five new genera and nine new species of fungi between 1822 and 1839. His name is written in the Cyrillic alphabet and has appeared in scientific documentation with a number of different romanizations, including V. Czernajev, Basil Matveievich Czerniaiev, B.M. Czernaiev, B.M. Czernjaëv, B.M. Czernjaëw, V.M. Tschernaiew, V. Tschernajef, and V. Czerniaier, although the official abbreviation seems to be consistently written as Czern.
Career Czernajew was a botany professor at the University of Kharkiv and the director of the botanical garden there.
See also Category:Taxa named by Vassilii Czernajew
Bibliography "Nouveaux cryptogames de l'Ukraine et quelques mots sur la flore de ce pays" [New cryptogams of Ukraine and a few words about the flora of this country]. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou (in French). 18 (2): 132–157. 1845. OCLC 79713598 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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"2 апреля родились..." [Born April 2nd...]. liveinternet.ru (in Russian). 2 April 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2022. "Василий Матвеевич Черняев (1793-1871)" [Vasily Matveevich Chernyaev (1793-1871)]. www-mycology.univer.kharkov.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Рябоконь, Андрей (15 February 2011). "1812-й год и Василий Черняев" [1812 and Vasily Chernyaev]. Проза.ру (in Russian). Retrieved 4 August 2022.