Oleksandr Stepanovych Maselsky (Ukrainian: Олександр Степанович Масельский; 7 December 1936 – 12 April 1996), was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician who had served as the first governor of Kharkiv Oblast from 1995 until his death. In 2006, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine, with the Order of the State. From the beginning of the 1980s until his death, he held a number of senior positions in the state authorities of the Kharkiv Oblast: the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kharkiv Regional Council of People's Deputies from 1983 to 1992, the Chairman of the Kharkiv