Vladimir Dinets is an American zoologist known for his studies of Crocodilian behavior and of numerous rare animals in remote parts of the world, as well as for popular writings in English and Russian.

Dinets was interested in zoology from an early age,[1] and was a winner of all-USSR Student Biology Olympics at Moscow State University.

[2] However, due to his Jewish ancestry, he was unofficially banned from entering that university,[3] and obtained a master's degree in biological engineering from Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering Electronics and Automation.

Being strongly opposed to First Chechen War, Dinets emigrated to the United States in 1997, and in 2011 obtained a Ph.D from University of Miami (adviser Steven Green).

[4] Dinets maintained a popular bilingual blog on LiveJournal, mostly defunct since the 2014 onset of Russo-Ukrainian War, which caused him to cut off his ties with Russia, and has a website[5] with a number of illustrated essays on biology, conservation and travel.