Nikita Vasilyevich Sakharov (Russian: Ники́та Васи́льевич Са́харов; 1915 in Gulya, Transbaikal Oblast – 1945) was a Soviet Evenk poet and prose writer.
He began his education at a rural Siberian school, moved to the city of Chita to continue his studies, and came to Leningrad in the early 1930s to attend the Institute of the Peoples of the North.
His best-known work, the 1938 novel Red Suglan, described the initiation of collective farming in the rural north.
Nikita Sakharov volunteered for the Red Army after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Sakharov's literary works were republished or published in Russian-language translation for the first time after the war, and much of his reputation as a writer is based on the literary research carried out in the post-war period.