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Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (; Russian: Егор Тимурович Гайдар, IPA: [jɪˈɡor tʲɪˈmurəvʲɪtɕ ɡɐjˈdar]; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009), a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author, who was the acting Prime Minister of Russia in 1992. He was also the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in 1992 and from 1993 to 1994.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Gaidar was the architect of Russia's controversial shock therapy reforms, which brought him both praise and harsh criticism. He participated in the preparation of the Belovezha Accords of December 1991. Many Russians held him responsible for the economic hardships that plagued the Russian Federation in the 1990s and which resulted in mass poverty and hyperinflation among other things, although liberals praised him as a man who did what had to be done to save the country from complete collapse. Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, who advised the Russian government in the early 1990s, called Gaidar "the intellectual leader of many of Russia's political and economic reforms" and "one of the few pivotal actors" of the period.

Gaidar died of pulmonary edema provoked by myocardial ischemia on 16 December 2009.