Sergei Ivanovich Adian, also Adjan (Armenian: Սերգեյ Իվանովիչ Ադյան; Russian: Сергей Иванович Адян, born 1 January 1931) is a Russian mathematician. He is a professor at the Moscow State University. He is most famous for his work in group theory, especially on the Burnside problem.

Adian was born near Kirovabad. He grew up there in an Armenian family. He studied at Yerevan and Moscow pedagogical institutes. His advisor was P.S. Novikov. He has been working at Moscow State University since 1965. A.A. Razborov was one of his students.

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• (Russian) On 75th birthday – an article by L. D. Beklemishev, I. G. Lysenok, S. P. Novikov, M. R. Pentus, A. A. Razborov, A. L. Semenov and V. A. Uspensky.
• Dedicated to Adian Sergei Ivanovich in 2006 Moscow Symposium on Logic, Algebra and Computation.
• Sergei Adian at the Mathematics Genealogy Project