"Makar Chudra" (Russian: Макар Чудра) is a 1892 short story by Maxim Gorky, first published by the Tiflis newspaper Kavkaz, in the No.

It was written in the summer of 1892 in Tiflis, where Gorky spent several weeks doing menial jobs, mostly for the Caucasian Railway workshops.

"[2][3] The narrator meets an old Roma traveller Makar Chudra and has a conversation with him outside the camp, revolving mostly around the theme of freedom.

Noticing his guest's interest in his daughter Nonka's singing, Makar warns him against falling victim to female charms and relates a story of a strong, handsome and fearless man Loiko Zobar and Radda, the latter's beauty matched only by her fierce sense of independence.

In 1976 the Emil Loteanu film Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven came out, based upon "Makar Chudra", although fragments of "Old Izergil", another early story by Gorky, were incorporated into the plotline too.