Mikhail Fedotovich Ovsyannikov (Russian: Михаи́л Федо́тович Овся́нников; 21 November 1915 – 11 August 1915) was a Soviet philosopher and academic who concentrated on in-depth study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
[1] Ovsyannikov was head of the Philosophy Department at Moscow State University from 1968 to 1974.
Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1939, subsequently earning a Kandidat nauk (primary-level doctoral degree) in 1943 for a dissertation titled "The Fate of Art in the Capitalist Milieu of Hegel and Balzac" («Судьба искусства в капиталистическом обществе у Гегеля и Бальзака»).
In 1961 he earned the academic title Doktor nauk (higher-level doctoral degree) for The Philosophy of Hegel, coming to be exceptionally regarded as a specialist on the critical analysis of Hegel's works.
From 1960, Ovsyannikov directed Marxist research in aesthetics at Moscow State; he chaired the philosophy department from 1960 to 1974, teaching the history of philosophy and courses on philosophical developments outside the Soviet Union.