Alexander Avdonin

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Avdonin.
Alexander Avdonin
Александр Авдонин
Born(1932-06-10)10 June 1932
Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died20 February 2026(2026-02-20) (aged 93)
OccupationsMineralogist, archeologist

Alexander Nikolayevich Avdonin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Авдонин; 10 June 1932 – 20 February 2026) was a Russian who was the first known person, in 1979, to begin exhuming the grave of the seven murdered Romanovs and four members of their household. He was born in Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union, where the Romanovs were murdered in 1918.

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