Aleksandr Maksimovich Yakovlev (Russian: Александр Максимович Яковлев; 29 August 1927 - 26 May 2011), was a Russian politician and jurist who had served as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia [ru] to the Federal Assembly from 1994 to 1996.
Yakovlev was a Doctor of Law, Professor, a 1984 laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, and an Honoured Lawyer of Russia.
He worked as head of the sector of criminal law and criminology of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and was the deputy director of the Institute of Soviet Legislation [ru] of the Soviet Ministry of Justice until 1975.
On 18 February 1994, Yakovlev became the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia [ru] to the Federal Assembly.
[2] On 10 February, the office of the plenipotentiary representative in the Federal Assembly was abolished.