Alexandr Mikhailovych Kondratov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Кондра́тов; October 3, 1937 in Smolensk – April 16, 1993 in St.Petersburg) was a Russian linguist, biologist, journalist and poet. He wrote many books on subjects as varied as ancient and modern languages, history, mathematics, paleontology, geology, cryptozoology, and Atlantis. He also wrote poetry. He was the first Russian to write a monography about dinosaurs purportedly surviving into modern times.[1]
Selected bibliography
Atlantis
Атлантиды моря Тетис (Atlantides of the Tethys Sea), 1986
Атлантиды пяти океанов (Atlantides of the Five Oceans, 1987
Атлантиды ищите на шельфе (Seek the Atlantis on the Shelf), 1988 - a trilogy
Other submerged lands
Атлантика без Атлантиды (The Atlantic Ocean without Atlantis, 1972)