Alexandr Mikhailovych Kondratov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Кондра́тов; October 3, 1937, Smolensk - April 16, 1993, St.Petersburg) was a Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet. He wrote many books on subjects as various as ancient and modern languages, history, mathematics, paleontology, geology, cryptozoology, Atlantis, and he also wrote poetry. He was the first Russian to write a monography about dinosaurs purportedly surviving into modern times