Ilya Valerievich Shikshin (Илья Валерьевич Шикшин, born 7 May 1990) is a 4-dan professional Go player from Russia.

He began playing go at the age of 5 along with his sister Svetlana Shikshina, being tutored by his father, go teacher Valery Shikshin.

[2] He reached the rank of 5-dan amateur two years later, after placing 4th in the European Youth Go Championship in Prague, Czech Republic.

[1] In 2015, Shikshin became the fourth player to be awarded the European Go Federation professional status after taking second place in the 2015 Pro Qualification Tournament.

[1] In 2010, Shiskhin unsuccessfully participated in the Kazan City Duma elections, representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.