Aleksandr Borisovich Chakovsky (Russian: Александр Борисович Чаковский; August 26, 1913 – February 17, 1994) was a Soviet/Russian editor and novelist; editor-in-chief of "Literaturnaya Gazeta" from 1962 to 1988.
A hard-line Communist, he served as an unofficial cultural arbiter through his position in the powerful Writers' Union.
Since January 1942, with the rank of major in the administrative service, he has been a correspondent for the Volkhov Front newspapers “Banner of Victory” and “Front-line Pravda”.
From 1962 to 1988, he was editor-in-chief of the Literary Newspaper, which at that time received the informal name "Hyde Park of Socialism" and reached the peak of its popularity.
In 1973, he signed a letter from a group of Soviet writers about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, and wrote an article denouncing the dissidents Alexander Ginzburg, Yuri Galanskov, Alexey Dobrovolsky and Vera Lashkova.