- Source: Valery Chaptynov
- Valery Chaptynov
- List of heads of federal subjects of Russia
- Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- List of chairmen of the State Assembly of the Altai Republic
- Vladilen Volkov
- 1945 in the Soviet Union
- Head of the Altai Republic
- 1997 in Russia
- Deaths in August 1997
- Gorno–Altai Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Valery Ivanovich Chaptynov (Russian: Валерий Иванович Чаптынов; 11 June 1945 – 10 August 1997) was a Russian politician. He was the first Head of the Altai Republic, the first Member of the Federation Council from the Altai Republic, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and First Secretary of the Gorno-Altai Communist Party for the duration of the short-lived Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.