Askoldia is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Stichaeidae, the pricklebacks and shannies.

Its only species is Askoldia variegata which is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

[1] Askoldia was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1910 by the Russian ichthyologist Mikhail Nikolaevich Pavlenko when he described its only species A. variegatus, with its type locality given as near Askold Island in Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of Japan, Russia.

The specific name variegata means "variegated" and is thought to refer to the colour pattern of a green background colour marked with many poorly defined red spots.

[7] Askoldia is found in the western North Pacific Ocean from the northern Sea of Okhotsk to the Pacific coast of Hokkaido and in the Sea of Japan to Peter the Great Bay at depths between 1.5 and 100 m (4 ft 11 in and 328 ft 1 in).