Valentin Konstantinovich Turkin ( Russian: Валентин Константинович Туркин; 6 February 1887 – 10 January 1958) was a screenwriter, film critic, and film theorist active in the Soviet Union. ^[1]

Turkin was a founder of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

• The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)
• The Stationmaster (1925)
• The Girl with a Hatbox (1927)
• The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)

• Youngblood, Denise. Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

• Valentin Turkin at IMDb