Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zuyev (Russian: Александр Михайлович Зуев; July 17, 1961 – June 10, 2001) was a Soviet pilot who defected to the United States with his MiG-29 on May 20, 1989.

Zuyev was an interceptor pilot with the VVS Frontal Aviation Regiment based at Mikha Tskhakaya, Georgian SSR (present day Senaki, Georgia).

During the party, Zuyev handed each a slice, except for four people: the commander who was preparing a flight plan, two mechanics on guard duty, and a unit member who was expected to be at another base.

He was allowed to immigrate to the United States where he settled in San Diego, California, and opened a consulting firm.

Zuyev wrote a book titled Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire (ISBN 0-446-51648-1).

On January 3, 1993, Zuyev claimed that the reason that Korean Air Lines Flight 007 succeeded in crossing over Kamchatka without being intercepted was because Arctic gales had knocked out the Soviet radars on Kamchatka ten days previously, and the local officials had lied to Moscow that it was fixed, allegedly preventing the Soviet Air Force from properly identifying the civilian aircraft before it was shot down.

On June 10, 2001, Zuyev died along with another aviator, Jerry "Mike" Warren, in a crash near Bellingham, Washington, when their Yakovlev Yak-52 entered and failed to recover from an accelerated stall.