Roshchin Boris Germanovich (1897, Riga – 1963, place unknown) — theatre director.

Boris Roshchin studied in Riga at Mironov’s Commercial School. In 1908 he moved with his family to Moscow. He entered the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University (which he did not complete) and also studied at the Moscow Studio of the Drama Theatre under the direction of Y. E. Ozerov (1915–1917).

After graduating from the studio he worked in Moscow theatres. From 1919 he worked as a stage director, and from 1921 as artistic director of theatres in Moscow and in various regions, including the Volkov Theatre in Yaroslavl, the Gorky Theatre in Vladivostok, the Sverdlovsk Drama Theatre, the Ashgabat Theatre, the State International Theatre of the People’s Commissariat for Education in Moscow, and the State Theatre of Comedy in Moscow.

He served as artistic director, chief director (and at times director) of the Daugavpils Russian Drama Theatre (1946–1952 and again in the late 1950s). He was chief director of the Riga Theatre of Operetta (1952–1955 and again in the early 1960s).

Among his productions in Daugavpils were Lyubov Yarovaya by Konstantin Trenev, The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky, Intervention by Lev Slavin, and Intrigue and Love by Friedrich Schiller, among others. At the Operetta Theatre he staged Trembita by Yuri Milyutin, The Land of Blue Lakes by Arvīds Žilinskis, Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, and others.

He was awarded the title Honoured Artist of the Latvian SSR in 1950.