| Birth Date: | 29 January 1991 |
| Birth Place: | Izhevsk, Russian SFSR |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 3 |
| Weight Lb: | 216 |
| Position: | Defence |
| Shoots: | Left |
| Team: | Lada Togliatti |
| League: | KHL |
| Former Teams: | Neftkhimik Nizhnekamsk Avangard Omsk Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg |
| Career Start: | 2007 |
Maxim Berezin (born January 29, 1991) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC Lada Togliatti of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
Berezin started his career in 2007 with HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the third level Pervaya Liga as a seventeen-year-old, where he scored 13 points in 38 games. He would spend most of his 2008–09 season in the second level Vysshaya Liga playing with Neftyanik Leninogorsk, scoring 6 pts in 32 games.[1]
He would split his next two seasons between Reaktor Nizhnekamsk of the Molodezhnaya Khokkeinaya Liga and Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. Berezin would score a career high in points (36) during his 2009–10 stint with Reaktor Nizhnekamsk.
Following tenures with Avangard Omsk and Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, Berezin returned to original club, Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, on a two-year contract beginning in the 2021–22 season on 3 August 2021.[2]
As a free agent, Berezin left Neftekhimik for second time in his career, opting to sign a one-year contract with reinstated KHL club, HC Lada Togliatti, for the 2023–24 season on 25 May 2023.[3]
Berezin was most a member of the Russian team that won the gold medal in the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. In seven games, he did not score but had three assists and eight penalty minutes.