Aleksandr Yuryevich Olshansky (Russian: Александр Юрьевич Ольшанский; born 19 January 1946, Saratov) is a Russian mathematician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1979),[1] laureate of the Maltsev Prize,[2] a professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University (since 1999).[3] In 1983 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.[4] He is a specialist in the field of combinatorial and geometric group theory, and has also written several papers on Lie algebras and associative algebras. He is an honorary member of the American Mathematical Society.