Leonīds Beresņevs (Russian: Леони́д Арка́дьевич Бе́реснев, Leonid Arkadyevich Beresnev; born 6 July 1958)[1] is a Latvian/Soviet former ice hockey player and coach.

Born in Kirov Oblast he is a coach of the Latvian U-20 junior team.

From that time they have remained in division A. Beresņevs' second term started in 2004 and ended in 2006.

Beresņevs has been a coach for almost all the best Latvian ice hockey clubs since 1995.

In 2003/2004 Beresņevs was head coach in Russian Hockey Super League team Amur Khabarovsk.