Mikhail Feodosievich Ivakhnenko (30 September 1947 – 10 July 2015) was a Russian paleontologist.[1][2] In the 1980s, he graduated with a PhD from the University of Leningrad with a dissertation on procolophonids.[2] He later worked at the Paleontological Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences.[2] His research largely focused on Permian synapsids and reptiles, having published over 50 works and naming 130 new fossil species.[3]

Mikhail Ivakhnenko, circa 1980s or 1990s.

He was born in 1947 in Smolensk. He died in Ramesnkoye, Moscow. He is buried at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery.[2]

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  1. ^ Агаджанян, А. К.; Алифанов, В. Р.; Банников, А. Ф. (2016). "Михаил Феодосьевич Ивахненко (1947–2015)". Палеонтологический журнал. 2016 (3): 109–110. doi:10.7868/S0031031X16030028.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ivakhnenko, Mikhail Feodosievich". pflaghamiltonbitterroot.org. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  3. ^ Агаджанян, А. К.; Алифанов, В. Р.; Банников, А. Ф. (2016). "Михаил Феодосьевич Ивахненко (1947–2015)". Палеонтологический журнал. 2016 (3): 109–110. doi:10.7868/s0031031x16030028. ISSN 0031-031X.