BornAstrakhan, Soviet UnionOccupationHistorianNationalityRussianLiterary movementMilitary historyNotable works“Russia - shield of Entente”
„Russia's contribution to the victory over the German bloc"
„The Dardanelles Operation of 1915"
„Trophies of the Russian army during the Great War"
„German offensive on East 1915” and „Great retreat and stabilization of Russian front”

Alexei Oleynikov is a Russian historian of World War I. He is a doctor of historical sciences and has written more than 1,000 scientific papers, including 22 monographs, and is a popular military historian of the First World War in Russia. In 2016, he received a letter of thanks from the governor of the Astrakhan region for his success in work and professionalism,^[1] and in 2017 he was given the Shield and Sword of the Fatherland award.^[2]