Pavel Grigorievich Talalay (Russian: Павел Григорьевич Талалай) (born October 14, 1962), is a Russian professor of drilling engineering and director of the Institute for Polar Science and Engineering in Jilin University, Changchun, China.

In 2010, Talalay was invited to work at Jilin University within the framework of the Chinese state program “Attracting 1000 highly qualified specialists”.

[3] Since 2009, Talalay is a member of Technical Assistance Board, U.S. NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

[4] In 2023-2024 Prof Talalay was the leader of the Chinese-Russian drilling project to study the in-situ dynamics and conditions at the bed of the Northwestern Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

He has been a part in a Russian project to create deepest borehole in ice at Vostok Station, Antarctica that contacted in February 2012 with the subglacial Lake Vostok at a depth 3769.3 m. In 2019, Talalay lead a research project that yielded the first bedrock sample beneath East Antarctica, near the Zhongshan Station, in more than 60 years.