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

Amur The Amur (russian: река́ Аму́р, ), or Heilong Jiang (, "Black Dragon River", ), is the world's List of longest rivers, tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China, Northeastern China (Inne ...

(in 1914 and 1916–17). The

hadrosaurid Hadrosaurids (), 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 family, which inclu ...

'' Amurosaurus riabinini'' 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 hadrosaurs 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, and a ...

'' in 1930. He also conducted studies on fossilised

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

s. In 2020, the

ornithopod Ornithopoda () is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (), that started out as small, bipedal running grazers and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world ...

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

genus known as ''

Riabininohadros ''Riabininohadros'' (meaning " Riabinin's hadrosaur") is an extinct genus of ankylopollexian dinosaur from the Maastrichtian of Crimea. Its type species is ''Riabininohadros weberi'', emended to ''Riabininohadros weberae''. It was originally clas ...

'' was named for him. In 1942, he perished during the

Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad (russian: links=no, translit=Blokada Leningrada, Блокада Ленинграда; german: links=no, Leningrader Blockade; ) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of L ...

. 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 Russian geologists Soviet paleontologists Victims of the Siege of Leningrad {{Paleontologist-stub