Azriel Chaikin (Hebrew עזריאל חייקין; born 1931 in USSR) is a chief Rabbi of Ukraine.
In 2003, he was proclaimed by all the Ukrainian Jewish communities as the chief Rabbi of Ukraine.
[1] Rabbi Chaikin was born in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1931, where his father, Meir Chaim Chaikin, had served as an emissary of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
Because the language taught in the schools under his auspices was Hebrew, he was accused of being a Zionist, and therefore left Morocco and moved to France.
In 1968, Rabbi Chaikin was offered a prestigious rabbinic position in Brussels, Belgium which he accepted.