Vitaly Vasilyev (Russian: Виталий Васильев; born 5 June 1973) is a Kyrgyzstani swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.

There, he failed to reach a top 16 final in the 50 m freestyle, finishing in fifty-second place with a time of 24.54.

He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.11 seconds from the Kazakhstan Open Swimming Championships in Almaty.

[5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the seventh heat, including two-time Olympians Jevon Atkinson of Jamaica and Joshua Laban of the Virgin Islands.

Vasilyev failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-fifth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminary heats.