Bonifaty Mikhailovich Kedrov (Russian: ??????´??? ????´?????? ??´?????10 December [O.S.
27 November] 1903, Yaroslavl — 10 September 1985, Moscow) was a notable Soviet researcher, philosopher, logician, chemist and psychologist.
He joined the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Kedrov had a Doctor of Philosophy degree and specialized in philosophical questions of the natural sciences.
He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1966, author of over one thousand publications.
Kedrov was (since 1963) member of the International Academy of the History of Science and a number of other institutions.
Kedrov was one of the initiators and the first editor-in-chief of Problems of philosophy (Voprosy filosofii) a leading Soviet journal of philosophy, from 1947 to 1949.