Anatoly Nikolaevich Kirpichnikov (25 June 1929 - 16 October 2020) was a Soviet and Russian archaeologist.

Since 1955 he worked at the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1963, at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he defended his candidate’s thesis “Russian melee weapons (X-XIII centuries)”, and in 1975 at the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he presented his doctoral dissertation “Military Affairs of Rus' in the 9th-15th centuries.”.

Member of the scientific council of the Russian Military Historical Society.

[3] On November 25, 2009, he publicly opposed the construction of the Okhta Center tower in St.