title: Book review: A long-awaited book about spiders from the Asian part of Russia
abstract: The authors of the book are well known scientists in Russian arachnology. Yuri Marusik has written more than 250 articles and several monographs. As a result of his work the number of known species from this region has increased from 500 at the end of the 1970s to approximately 2000 at present. He has described more than 400 new species and genera as well as having compiled check-lists for the majority of sub-regions of the Asian part of Russia. Yuri Marusik has reported many new records for the
journal: ZooKeys