Aleksandr Alekseyevich Avdeyev (Russian: Александр Алексеевич Авдеев; born 8 September 1946 in Kremenchuk, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Russian and Soviet politician and diplomat.

[5] On 26 January 2010 he met with Vladimir Putin (then the Prime Minister of Russia) to discuss reconstruction of various Russian theatres, especially Bolshoi Theatre so that it will be ready for the 150th anniversary of notable Russian writer Anton Chekhov.

During the meeting with he also discussed circus system and various ways on how to acquire Russian cultural pieces from abroad.

He also mentioned that as of now the ministry is rebuilding museums in Tsarskoye Selo, Saransk as well as Vladikavkaz and is nearly completed reconstruction of Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater and the second complex of the Mariinsky Theatre.

[10] On 13 January 2013 he proclaimed the Schneersohn Library to be "the unalienable property of Russia" urging to ignore the decisions of American courts of returning the collection to Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad as "provocative".