Ilya Sholeimovich Shifman (Russian: Илья́ Шо́леймович Ши́фман (pseudonym Кораблёв; 1 June 1930, in Leningrad – 4 March 1990, in Leningrad) was a Soviet historian, Orientalist and Classics scholar. He was awarded the degree Doctor of Historical Sciences in 1973; he worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leningrad department. From 1989 to 1990 he served as the first chairman of the Jewish cultural society in Leningrad.