title: Mikhail Ivakhnenko
text: # Mikhail Ivakhnenko
  
  Mikhail Feodosievich Ivakhnenko (1947–2015) was a Russian paleontologist. In the 1980s, he graduated with a PhD from the University of Leningrad with a dissertation on procolophonids. He later worked at the Paleontological Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research largely focused on Permian synapsids and reptiles, having published over 50 works and naming 130 new fossil species.
  
  He is buried at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery.
  
  