Vladimir Aleksandrovich Karelin (February 23, 1891 – September 22, 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, one of the organizers of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party and a member of its Central Committee, and People's Commissar of Properties of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic from December 1917 to March 1918.

At the Second All–Russian Congress of Soviets, he was elected to the Presidium of the All–Russian Central Executive Committee representing the left Socialist Revolutionaries.

At the founding congress of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party (November 19–27), he was elected a member of the Central Committee.

In March 1918, due to his opposition to the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, he resigned from the Council of People's Commissars.

[1] Karelin continued to remain a member of the All–Russian Central Executive Committee, defending the position of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries at meetings.

[1] He was one of the organizers and an active participant in the uprising of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries on July 6–7, 1918 in Moscow.

[4] On September 22, 1938, Karelin was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union to capital punishment and was shot on the same day.