 Kamaletdinov died on 1 July 2013 in Ufa, Russia.In 1954, when Soviet geologists categorically denied the concept of nappes, Kamaletdinov proved the existence of the large Karatau nappe on the western slope of the Southern Ural Mountains.He went on to discover many other tectonic sheets and allochthonous outcrops in the Southern and Middle Urals that had previously been identified, incorrectly, as anticlinal folds.