Alexander Vasilievich Alexeev[a] (10 March 1938 – 7 October 2020) was a Soviet and Russian conductor and academic teacher, who received the Honored Artist of the RSFSR award.

[1] He was selected by cultural authorities in Moscow and Leningrad, as one of very few Russian conductors like Mariss Jansons, for postgraduate studies with Hans Swarowsky at the Vienna Music Academy from 1971.

[4] Alexeev recorded with different orchestras in Russia for the label Melodya, including the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra,[5] as well performed regularly with leading musicians of the Soviet Union such as Gidon Kremer, Oleg Kagan, Vadim Repin, Yuri Bashmet, David Geringas, Natalia Gutman, Dmitri Alexeev, Mikhail Pletnev, Grigory Sokolov, and Dmitri Bashkirov.

2, with pianist Aleksei Cherkasov and the USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1987, published with other works by Arensky.

[7] In 1992 he joined the faculty of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and served between 2000 and 2008 as head of the department of opera and symphony conducting.