Valentin Yakovlevich Brodsky (Russian: Валентин Яковлевич Бродский; 1905–1981) was a Soviet artist and art critic.
He studied under the artists A. D. Silin, P. A. Shillingovsky and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.
He served in the army during the Second World War, heading up the Baltic Fleet translation bureau.
He lived through the siege of Leningrad, which served as the basis of a series of drawings during the 1940s.
After the war, he taught at Leningrad State University.