The article is devoted to the life story and scientific biography of Andrei V. Barabanov, a well-known specialist in the taxonomy of amphibians and reptiles, who worked together with herpetologists of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A list of his publications (29) and published new taxa (1 subgenus, 2 species and 2 subspecies), combinations (19), and status (1) is given.