Andrey Esipenko
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| Full name | Andrey Evgenyevich Esipenko |
| Country | Russia (until 2022, since 2023) FIDE (2022–2023) |
| Born | 22 March 2002 (age 23) Novocherkassk, Russia |
| Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
| FIDE rating | 2689 (June 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2723 (March 2022) |
| Ranking | No. 39 (June 2025) |
| Peak ranking | No. 24 (March 2022) |
Andrey Evgenyevich Esipenko (Russian: Андрей Евгеньевич Есипенко; born 22 March 2002) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He won the European U10 Chess Championship in 2012, and both the European U16 and World U16 Chess Championship in 2017.
Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players, Esipenko signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people.