Vladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev (Russian: Владилен Иванович Машковцев) (September 26, 1929 – April 24, 1997) was a Russian poet, writer and journalist.

He wrote 15 books published in the Urals and in Moscow.

Vladilen Mashkovtsev was born on September 26, 1929 in Tyumen, Ural Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (now Tyumen Oblast, Russian Federation).

[1] During the Great Patriotic War, Mashkovtsev studied at the Kurgan Aviation School of Pilots.

In 1947, he arrived in Magnitogorsk, worked as a toolmaker at the repair and mechanical plant of the trust "Magnitostroi".