Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (Russian: Владимир Прохорович Амалицкий; July 13, 1860–December 28, 1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a paleontologist and professor at Warsaw University.^[1] He was involved in the discovery and excavation of the Late Permian fossil vertebrate fauna from the North Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District, Northern European Russia.^[2] He made a number of studies of the fossil remains of amphibians and reptiles from Northern Russia.

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Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii
Amalitskii before 1917
Born	July 13, 1860 Volhynian Governorate
Died	December 28, 1917(1917-12-28) (aged 57) Kislovodsk
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	SPb University
Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology
Institutions	Warsaw University

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Amalitskii was born in the village of Staryky, near Korosten in what is now Zhytomyr Oblast in Ukraine.^[1]

Amalitskii and his wife Anna Petrovna, who had studied art in St. Petersburg, illustrated and translated books and articles together.^[1] Together they uncovered the first fossils of Scutosaurus

He died from sudden heart failure in Kislovodsk on December 28, 1917, aged 57.^[1]

• Amalitskii, V.P., Dvinosauridae Petrograd : Akademicheskaia tip., 1921. 16 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. -- (Severodvinskie raskopki professora V.P. Amalitskogo ;
• Amalitskii, V.P., Seymouridae, Petrograd : Akademicheskaia tip., 1921. 14 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. -- (Severodvinskie raskopki professora V.P. Amalitskogo ; 2)
• Amalitzky, V.P., 1922, Diagnoses of the new forms of vertebrates and plants from the upper Permian of North Dvina: Bulletin de l’Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, Math and Natural Sciences, 1922, p. 329-340. and in Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. 6 25 (1), 1–12.