Major General Alexander Vladimirovich Shishlyannikov (Russian: Александр Владимирович Шишлянников; 3 November 1950 – 15 September 2023) was a Tajik military officer and the first Minister of Defence of Tajikistan, serving from 1993 to 1995.

In the 1980s, Shishlyannikov served in the Central and Turkestan Military District (based in the Kazakh and Uzbek capitals of Alma-Ata and Tashkent respectively), as well as the Western Group of Forces in East Germany.

[1] By the time of the fall of the Soviet Union and the creation of independent nations, he was serving as an officer in the Uzbek defense ministry.

During his tenure, it was expected that he would be temporary and would eventually be replaced by Colonel Ramazon Radjabov, his deputy who was in favor with many elite circles.

In July of that year, he hosted visiting Russian defence minister Pavel Grachev, where he criticized the position of "individual leaders of the CIS countries" for the proposals of the CIS Joint Armed Forces Command to bring peacekeeping forces into the republic being unfulfilled.