Alexander Aronovich Vinnikov (Russian: Александр Аронович Винников; born 6 October 1955) is a Russian politician and formerly the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

[1][2] Alexander Vinnikov was the mayor of Birobidzhan, the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

On 14 March 2004, Alexander Vinnikov, the incumbent, faced professor Miron Fishbeyn, and Aleksandr Kurdyukov of the Birobidzhan municipal administration.

[6] As member of the local kehilla,[7] during the December 2005 candle-lighting of a Hanukkah Menorah, Alexander Vinnikov lit the 'shamash' candle and passed it to the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Chabad Lubavich representative, Mordechai Scheiner.

Vinnikov, who was nominated to the post by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on February 8, was supported by 13 deputies out of a total of 16.