Nicolai Costenco [nikolai kostentʃo] (21 December 1913 – 29 July 1993) was a writer from Moldova.

He was managing editor of Viaţa Basarabiei (1934–1940) and was deported to Siberia în 1941.

[1] Nicolai Costenco was born in Chişinău on December 21, 1913, but his maternal grandparents, Gheorghe and Libeada, brought him up in Cihoreni.

[2] In 1941 he was deported to Siberia because he claimed that there is no difference between the Moldovan language and the Romanian language.

[1] In his poem, "Pictează-mi o mirişte", Grigore Vieru wrote: "Nicolai Costenco, poetul/ Care şi-a scris poemele/ Pe caietul de gheaţă Siberian"...[3][4]