Mikhail Georgievich Khudyakov (Russian: Михаил Георгиевич Худяков; September 3, 1894 in Malmyj — executed December 19, 1936 in Leningrad) – is a Soviet archaeologist, researcher of history and culture of the Volga basin peoples.
Khudyakov was born in a small town of Malmyzha of Vyatka province, in an old and prosperous Russian merchant family.
In 1920s, he published a number of historical, ethnographic, and archaeological works about history of the Turkic and Finno-Ugric peoples of the region.
His book “Essays on the History of the Kazan Khanate”, published in 1923, gained a scientific prominence.
His work expressed his gratitude to a number of orientalists, who to some extent shared his vision: Gayaz Maksudov and G.S.
From 1931, he was a lead researcher at the Institute of the Pre-Class Society (GAIMK), in 1933 he joined the Department of Early Feudalism.
In 1936, without having to present a thesis, he was bestowed a PhD degree in the Historical Sciences and a title of an active member of the Pre-Class Society Institute (GAIMK).
On December 19, 1936, a field session of the Supreme Council of the USSR Armed Forces sentenced him to death with confiscation of all his private property.