Template:Short description Template:Expand Russian Template:Infobox person Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (Template:Langx; 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The genus of Puschkinia commemorates his name.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>