Valery Bakievich Akhadov is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film director. He was named an Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation in 2002. He is a longtime director of the Tajikfilm studio, where he shot most of his films. In 1989, his film Ruf starred Annie Girardot. Since 2004, he has been an associate professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.