Aleksandr Zolotarev (1879–1938) was a Ukrainian politician, statesman and journalist.
He graduated from the law faculty of the Moscow State University.
In 1917 he returned to Kiev and became a member of the Central Council of Ukraine from Jewish Bund.
Along with it Zolotarev was a member of the Kiev city Duma, All-Ukrainian council of workers' deputies and state controller for the General Secretariat of Ukraine.
At the end of 1918 he joined Bolsheviks and became a member of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine.