Valentyn Ostapovych Rechmedin (Ukrainian: Валентин Остапович Речмедін, Russian: Валентин Остапович Речмедин; 12 February 1916 – 6 June 1986) was a Ukrainian journalist and writer. He grew up in the village of Andrushivka in present Pohrebyshche Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast (province), where his father was a teacher. After World War II he moved to Kiev where he worked at the newspapers Radianska Ukraïna, Literaturna Ukraïna (as deputy chief editor) and Kultura i zhyttia (as chief editor) and the magazine Vitchyzna (as deputy chief editor from 1963).