Alexander Voronin (1954- ) is arguably the doyen of today’s Russian atlantology. He has a background in law and journalism, both useful in his research and his position as President (since 2003) of the Russian Society for the Study of the Problems of Atlantis (ROIPA^(a)).

He has authored over a hundred papers and a number of books^{[796][797][798]} related to ancient civilisations and Atlantis. Voronin is also the editor of the recent Almanac of the Last of Ancient Civilizations: KRONOS,  which discusses Atlantis, problems, searches, researchers and hypotheses. He sometimes uses the noms de plume Alex Bran and Bran Athansius. Unfortunately, all his work is available in Russian only. A fuller biography is available in Document 170212.

He believes that Atlantis was located in the North Atlantic with many colonies in the islands of the Atlantic and North West Africa.

Late 2011 saw Voronin and a team of scientists carrying out research on megalithic sites in the Mediterranean working from the luxury sailing ship Running on Waves.

^(a) http://roipa-atlantida.narod.ru/