Valentina Nikolayevna Zhuravlyova (Russian: Валентина Николаевна Журавлёва, July 17, 1933 – March 12, 2004) was a Soviet science fiction writer.

Valentina Zhuravlyova
Born	(1933-07-17)17 July 1933 Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union
Died	12 March 2004(2004-03-12) (aged 70) Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia
Occupation	Writer
Language	Russian
Alma mater	Baku Medical Institute
Spouse	Genrich Altshuller

Valentina Zhuravlyova was the wife of Genrich Altshuller, the inventor of TRIZ and a science fiction writer himself. They wrote many stories together, but because of anti-Semitic restrictions, they were published under the single name of Valentina Zhuravlyova.