Igor Ivanovich Afrikantov (Russian: Игорь Иванович Африкантов; 1916 – 1969) was a Soviet designer and manager of building nuclear reactors and components for the Russian nuclear industry, civil fleet, and navy.

Igor Ivanovich Afrikantov was born in Pushkarka, a village in the Arzamas District of Gorky Oblast, Russia.

[1] From 1939 to 1942 - Head of the Design Bureau of the Stalingrad Shipyard (Plant No.

Since 1942 he worked in the city of Gorky at the plant number 92 (Gorky Machine-Building Plant - GMZ): In 1953 he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the development and commissioning of the diffusion plants that provided the production of highly enriched uranium, in 1958 - the Lenin Prize.

He headed the work of OKBM to design and master the production of the world's first fast neutron power reactor with sodium coolant BN-350 and BN-600.