Valery Babich (Russian: Вале́рий Васи́льевич Ба́бич) (born January 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer and journalist. Until 1991 was an engineer shipbuilder, head of the design bureau at Department of chief designer of Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv on aircraft carriers and S.U. ground complex testing of naval aviation in Crimea.