Alexey Mikhailovich Kurmanaevsky is a Russian painter and graphic artist whose practice spans portraiture, poster design and graphic art. Based in Rostov-on-Don, he has been closely associated with the city's artistic institutions and the development of poster art in the region. He is also the author of the coats of arms of the Rostov region and several of its cities.

Born in 1946 in Beijing, Kurmanaevsky graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov in 1975 and joined the Union of Artists of Russia in 1977. Since 2005, he has taught painting, graphics and sculpture at the Academy of Architecture and Arts of Southern Federal University, where he is a professor and heads a workshop in graphics. His portraits include prominent cultural figures such as poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Bella Akhmadulina, writer N. M. Egorov, and artists and cultural figures M. I. Bushnova and T. S. Shkrabak.

Kurmanaevsky has participated in more than 200 exhibitions in Russia and internationally, including in Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Hungary, Poland, Germany, the United States, Japan, Great Britain and Cuba. His work is held in the Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts, the Salsk Museum, the Azov Museum-Reserve, the Taganrog Art Museum and the North Caucasus branch of the State Museum of Oriental Art, as well as institutional collections in Poland, Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom.

His career has been recognised with numerous awards, including the Shuvalov Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts in 2011 and the Gold Medal of the Union of Artists of Russia in 2012. In collaboration with E. M. Kurmanaevskaya, he received 20 awards at poster competitions, including three international awards. He was named Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 2005 and became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts in 2016.