Evgeniy Najer (born 22 June 1977) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2002 he shared the victory of the U.S. Open Chess Championship with Gennadi Zaichik and in 2003 won the Moscow City Chess Championship.
He tied for 1st–6th with Kaido Külaots, Artyom Timofeev, Zoltan Gyimesi, Sergey Grigoriants and Oleg Korneev at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open 2004. In the same year he tied for 1st–3rd with Michael Roiz and Leonid Gofshtein in the Ashdod Chess Festival. In 2007 he tied for 1st–2nd with Vasily Yemelin in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament. In both 2008 and 2009 he won the World Open in Philadelphia. In July 2009, he tied for first with Robert Fontaine in the Paleohora Open Tournament. In 2010, he tied for 2nd–5th with Michael Adams, Victor Mikhalevski and Jiri Stocek the 14th Chicago Open.
He was one of the seconds of Gata Kamsky in his 2009 match against Veselin Topalov.