Vereshchagin

thumb|150px|Coat of arms of the Vereshchagin noble family Vereshchagin () is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Vereshchagina. It was also a name of an old Russian Boyar family.

== Notable surname bearers == Pavel Vereshchagin, a character from the 1970 Soviet movie White Sun of the Desert Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36–1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin (1835–1909), Russian portraitist, history painter and illustrator, brother of Pyotr Nikolay Vereshchagin (1839–1907), organizer of Russian cheese and butter industry Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904), Russian war painter, brother of Nikolay The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum Nikolai Kuzmich Vereshchagin (1908–2008), Russian zoologist who specialized in the study of mammoths and other Arctic paleofauna, grandson of the war painter Vasily Vereshchagin Igor Vereshchagin (born 1952), Russian music and street photographer.