Andrey Petrovich Kurnyavka (Russian: Андрей Петрович Курнявка, born 4 May 1968) is a retired Soviet and Kyrgyzstani boxer.

He won the world middleweight title in 1989, and finished second in 1991, but was not included to the 1992 Soviet Olympic team and retired from boxing.

He came out of retirement after a last-minute offer to compete for Kyrgyzstan in the heavyweight event of the 1996 Summer Olympics, but lost in the first bout to the eventual winner Félix Savón.

[3] Upon winning the silver at the 1991 Championships, he was approached on the spot by the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Evander Holyfield and his handler Lou Duva, who noted Kurnyavka's aggressive style and offered him a full-time job as a sparring partner in the Team Holyfield camp, $10,000 monthly salary plus covering all other expenses.

[1] In the 1990s Kurnyavka was shot on two occasions[3] and spent four years in jail, in relation to his business activities.