Vasily Yemelin (born 1 February 1976) is a Russian chess player.

He participated in two Chess Olympiads, in 1994 and 1996, playing for Russia B team on both occasions.

[2] In February 2007, he shared first place with Evgeny Najer in the Moscow Open scoring 7½/9 points.

[3] One month later, Yemelin finished tied for first place with Wang Yue, Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian and Yuri Drozdovskij in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open scoring 7/9 points.

[4] In 2009, Yemelin shared first place with Alexey Dreev in the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia, held with the rapidplay time control.