Aleksei Leontievich Kovalev (Russian: Алексей Леонтьевич Ковалёв; born 10 May 1925 – died 7 September 1997) was a Red Army soldier who allegedly assisted in the taking of the photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag.

Aleksei Kovalev was born in the village of Burlin, Kazakh SSR,[1] son of the farmer of Russian nationality.

Allegedly, when he asked who had first raised the Soviet flag over the building, the soldiers present singled out Kovalev, Abdulkhakim Ismailov, and Leonid Gorychev.

[1] Kovalev was demobilized in 1950 and joined the Kiev Fire Department the next year.

Kovalev retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1988 and died on 7 September 1997 in Kyiv.