Mikhail Nikolayevich Mikheyev (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Михеев; 28 October 1905 – 27 August 1989) was a Soviet physicist, physics of metals expert, corresponding member of RAS (since 1979).

[citation needed] He was born at Zuyevka Station, now part of Kirov Oblast.

He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1930.

Then he worked at Ioffe Institute (1928–1932), Ural Institute of Physico-Technical Institute (UPTI, now the Physics of Metals Institute of Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences) as its first director from 1932, when he was a postgraduate student,[1] until 1948, and from 1953 until 1986.

He was also a member of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Council (1963–1971).