Artemic (Artashes) Bagratovich Khalatov (Russian: Артемий Багратович Халатов; 15 (27) April 1894 – 26 September 1937[1] or 27 October 1938[2])(sources differ) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who was the director of the Soviet Union's State Publishing House, from 1927 to 1932.

Although official biographies described him as coming from a working-class background, more recent research has shown that he was born into the family of a wealthy Armenian merchant.

After the February Revolution of March 1917, Khalatov became deputy chairman of the Moscow City Food Committee.

During the Civil War of 1917-1923 he was in leading positions in the People's Commissariat of Food and the Main Directorate for the supply of the army.

He actively participated in the Great Purge of 1936-1938 by publishing defamatory articles about various groups of people who were already the focus of the Soviet state security (NKVD).