Maya Iosifovna Turovskaya (Russian: Майя Иосифовна Туровская; 27 October 1924 – 4 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian theatrical and film critic, film historian, screenwriter, and culturologist.

In 1947 she graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, and in 1948 – the theater department of GITIS, where she was a student of Abram Efros.

[1] In 1969, it was the first time since 1949 that it was recruited by a research associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

She has been published in Theater, Soviet Screen, The Art of Cinema, Kinovedcheskie Zapiski, Moscow Observer and other publications.

The author of the retrospective of the Cinema of the Totalitarian Epoch at the International Film Festival in Moscow in 1989.