Anatoliy Riabinin (11 June 1874 – 2 February 1942) was a Russian and Soviet geologist and vertebrate paleontologist. In the 1910s, Riabinin led the first paleontological expeditions to the

Amur The Amur River () or Heilong River ( zh, s=黑龙江) is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer Manchuria, Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur ...

(in 1914 and 1916–17). The

hadrosaurid Hadrosaurids (), also hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae. This group is known as the duck-billed dinosaurs for the flat duck-bill appearance of the bones in their snouts. The ornithopod fami ...

Amurosaurus riabinini ''Amurosaurus'' (; "Amur lizard") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the latest Cretaceous period (66 million years ago)Godefroit, P., Lauters, P., Van Itterbeeck, J., Bolotsky, Y. and Bolotsky, I.Y. (2011). "Recent advanc ...

'' is named for him. In 1925, he described the first dinosaur from China (though excavated in 1914). It initially bore the name ''Trachodon amurense'', though he renamed it ''

Mandschurosaurus ''Mandschurosaurus'' (meaning "lizard from Manchuria") is an extinct genus of hadrosaurids based on material from the Late Cretaceous of China and possibly also the Early Cretaceous of Laos. It was the first dinosaur genus named from China. Dis ...

'' in 1930. He also conducted studies on fossilised

turtle Turtles are reptiles of the order (biology), order Testudines, characterized by a special turtle shell, shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Crypt ...

s. In 2020, the

ornithopod Ornithopoda () is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (). They represent one of the most successful groups of herbivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous. The most primitive members of the group were bipedal and relatively sm ...

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...

genus known as '' Riabininohadros'' was named for him. In 1942, he perished during the

Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad was a Siege, military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 t ...

. Several of his works were posthumously published in the late 1940s (publications appeared in 1945 and 1946). He thus described ''

Batrachognathus ''Batrachognathus'' is an extinct genus of anurognathid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic ( Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Formation of the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. The genus was named in 1948 by the Russian paleontologist Ana ...

'' in 1948.

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1874 births 1942 deaths 20th-century Russian geologists Soviet paleontologists Victims of the Siege of Leningrad Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery {{Paleontologist-stub