Magomed Tankayevich Tankayev (Russian: Магомед Танкаевич Танкаев, 1919–1998) was a Soviet military leader of Avar origin who served as chief of the Northern Group of Forces in 1968-1973 and representative of the Warsaw Pact Supreme Command in East Germany in 1974-1978 Magomed Tankayevich Tankayev was born in 1919 in Urada, a village in the mountainous Dagestani region of MRNC northern Caucasus and came from a peasant background.

He was commissioned as a junior officer on 16 June 1941 and joined the front lines soon after the German attack on the Soviet Union.

Colonel-General Tankayev returned to Moscow to head the Main Directorate of Military Colleges of the USSR Ministry of Defense in 1973-1974 and served in East Germany as chief representative of the Warsaw Pact Supreme Command to the National People's Army in 1974-1978.

General Tankayev Street in Makhachkala, capital of the Russian Federation's Republic of Dagestan, carries the name of the colonel-general.

A statute of Magomed Tankayev, crafted by sculptor Aligadzhi Saygadov and architect Abdula Magomedov, was unveiled on Batyray Street in Makhachkala by Mayor Said Amirov on 30 October 2009.