diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 59a704a45170..3dceea737694 100644
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -2142,6 +2142,10 @@ E: seasons@falcon.sch.bme.hu
 E: seasons@makosteszta.sote.hu
 D: Original author of software suspend
 
+N: Alexey Kuznetsov
+E: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
+D: Author and maintainer of large parts of the networking stack
+
 N: Jaroslav Kysela
 E: perex@perex.cz
 W: https://www.perex.cz
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 57e17762d411..c6e7f6bf7f6d 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -12417,7 +12417,6 @@ F:	tools/testing/selftests/net/ipsec.c
 
 NETWORKING [IPv4/IPv6]
 M:	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
-M:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
 M:	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
 L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Maintained