Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (Russian: Всеволод Васильевич Санаев; 25 February 1912, Tula – 27 January 1996, Moscow) was a Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s.

[2] The mass popularity came to Sanayev in the 1950s and 1960s; among his best known roles were Kantaurov in The Return of Vasily Bortnikov (1952), Dontsov in The First Echelon (1955), Kozlov in Five Days, Five Nights (1960), Siply (Husky) in Optimistic Tragedy (1962); later Colonel Lukin in the war epic Liberation (1968), Professor Stepanov in Pechki-lavochki (1972), and Colonel Zorin (The Return of St. Luca, 1970; The Black Prince, 1973, and The Version of Colonel Zorin, 1978).

Their daughter, the actress Elena Sanayeva, is a widow of the actor and director Rolan Bykov.

[3][4] His grandson Pavel Sanayev is an actor, scriptwriter, theatre director and playwright.

His acclaimed 1995 autobiographical play Bury Me Under a Baseboard told the harrowing story of his life with a tyrannous grandmother, whom his mother left him with after her marriage.