Vladimir Semyonovich Ovchinsky (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Овчинский; born 1955) is a Russian criminologist, Major general, Doctor of Sciences in Jurisprudence, Professor, 3rd class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation (2006), Honoured Lawyer of Russia.

[1] Former advisor to the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

[3] He graduated with honors from the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1976.

[9][10] From 2004 to 2011, he was Advisor to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

[16] Ovchinsky called himself a student of Pobisk Kuznetsov.