Vladimir Semyonovich Ovchinsky (; 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. From 1995 to 1997, he was an assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. From 1997 to 1999, he was the head of the Russian Bureau of Interpol.http://www.labyrinth.ru/content/card.asp?cardid=34028 Former advisor to the Collective Security Treaty Organization.https://kam.business-gazeta.ru/article/584277

He was born into the family of Professor S.S. Ovchinsky.https://izborsk-club.ru/11031 He graduated with honors from the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1976.https://eurasialaw-journal.ru/intervyu-s-vladimirom-semenovichem-ovchinskim.htmlhttps://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/vladimiru-semyonovichu-ovchinskomu-55-let He studied with Vladimir Rushailo.http://www.labyrinth.ru/content/card.asp?cardid=34028

From 1976 to 1986, he worked at Moscow Oblast Police.https://eurasialaw-journal.ru/intervyu-s-vladimirom-semenovichem-ovchinskim.html

From 1999 to 2001, he was a journalist for the Moskovskiye Novosti.https://eurasialaw-journal.ru/intervyu-s-vladimirom-semenovichem-ovchinskim.html

From 2001 to 2002, he was the vice-president of the SUAL Group.https://www.biografija.ru/biography/ovchinskij-vladimir-semenovich.htmhttps://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/vladimiru-semyonovichu-ovchinskomu-55-let

From 2004 to 2011, he was Advisor to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.https://svop.ru/эксперты/овчинский-владимир-семенович/

He is a member of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy.https://www.biografija.ru/biography/ovchinskij-vladimir-semenovich.htmhttps://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/vladimiru-semyonovichu-ovchinskomu-55-let He is also a member of the Izborsky Club.https://izborsk-club.ru/11031

He published in the Ogoniok.https://web.archive.org/web/20071118030228/http://www.ogoniok.com/5022/16/

He used to be a friend of Sergey Karaganov.https://kam.business-gazeta.ru/article/38648

Ovchinsky called himself a student of Pobisk Kuznetsov.https://zavtra.ru/blogs/tcifrovaya_ekonomika_i_sovetskaya_ekonomika

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