Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (; February 17, 1760 – April 18, 1805) was a Russian chemist and plant collector. He led a botanical expedition to the Caucasus in 1802 with his friend botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.

In 1797, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Russian mining board and developed several new methods of refining and processing of platinum. The genus of Puschkinia commemorates his name.

Apollo Mussin-Pushkin

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1760 births

1805 deaths

Chemists from the Russian Empire

Nobility from the Russian Empire

18th-century botanists from the Russian Empire

Russian inventors

Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Fellows of the Royal Society

Apollo Mussin-Pushkin