Znaur Nikolayevich Gassiyev ( / Gaššite Nikhalaye fert Znawer, , ; 17 March 1925 – 6 March 2016) was a South Ossetian politician, who was one of the leaders of the South Ossetian independence movement in the early 1990s, which culminated in the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.