17 November] 1868 – 21 August 1938) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, later the Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich.

He christmated Pavlo Skoropadskyi as Hetman of Ukraine on 29 April 1918 in the Saint Sophia Cathedral.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Krotkov was born in a family of a Russian priest from the Kostroma Eparchy.

In 1889 he graduated from the Kostroma Theological Seminary, after which Krotkov was appointed as a teacher to a parish school.

On 11 November 1907 Nikodim was laid on of hands by Archbishop Anastasiy as bishop of Akkerman and vicar of Kishenev and Khotin Eparchy.