Valentina Nikolayevna Zhuravlyova (, July 17, 1933 â March 12, 2004) was a Soviet science fiction writer born in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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.