Kalininite (ZnCr₂S₄) is a thiospinel mineral found in Russia in 1985 in the Pereval Marble Quarry, Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal area, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e), Eastern-Siberian Region. It was named for P. I. Kalinin, Russian mineralogist and petrologist, investigator of the southern Baikal region.