Vladimir Salmanovich Maksimov (; born October 14, 1945, in Kant, Kirghiz SSR) is a Soviet and Russian handball player and coach. After his retirement as a player, he was a coach for the Russian national team, with which he won all three major titles in handball (European champion in 1996, world champion twice in 1993 and 1997 and Olympic champion in 2000).
As an active player, he was on the team who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics (three matches played, fifth place) and in the 1976 Summer Olympics (gold medal). He played 172 goals for the Soviet Union men's national handball team, scoring 690 goals and was the captain of the team. His last game for the national team was 1978 World Men's Handball Championship final against West Germany, where the Soviet Union lost 19-20. At club level he played for Krasnodar University and MAI Moscow. He won Soviet Men's Handball Championship in 1972, 1974 and 1975 and the European Cup in 1973.
He has been the coach of the Russian national team on three separate occasions. He was fired in 2012 after Russia had failed to qualify for the 2011 World Championship and was knocked out in the preliminary round of the 2012 European Championship. He has also coached Chekhovskiye Medvedi, where he won the EHF Cup Winners' Cup in 2006 and the Russian Handball Super League 11 times in a row from 2002 to 2013