Leonid Grigoryevich Ivashov (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Ивашов) (born August 31, 1943) is a vice president of the Academy on Geopolitical Affairs and former Joint Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, general-colonel.

Leonid Ivashov was born in Kyrgyz SSR and graduated from Tashkent military school in 1964.

Between 1976 and 1984 he worked as a senior aid to the Soviet Minister of Defense Dmitriy Ustinov. In 1987 he became chief of the department for general affairs in the Soviet Union’s Ministry of Defense.