Valery Grigorievich Asapov (Russian: ??????? ??????????? ??????; 1 January 1966 – 23 September 2017) was Lieutenant General in the Russian Army.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, he was killed on 23 September 2017 by mortar fire from ISIL militants near the city of Deir ez-Zor during the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War in the course of the Syrian Civil War.
Asapov's position in Syria was described by the Ministry of Defence as the chief of the group of Russian military advisers in Syria.