Olga Larionova (born 1935) is the pen name of Olga Nikolayevna Tideman, a Russian science fiction author who began in the Soviet era.

[1] Her debut novel was A Leopard from the top of Kilimanjaro ("Леопард с вершины Килиманджаро") from 1965.

[2] Her story A Tale of Kings was in the anthology Earth and Elsewhere, which gained her notice in the West.

[3] She is one of the few successful female Russian science fiction writers of her generation.

[4] She won the Aelita Prize in 1987 and remains one of the few women to win it as an individual writer.