Nikolai Borisovich Fadeyechev[a] (27 January 1933 – 23 June 2020) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and teacher.

In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Ballet School, where he had studied with Alexander Rudenko, and joined the Bolshoi Theatre, where he performed many principal roles.

[1] He was a regular partner with Maya Plisetskaya,[2] Raisa Struchkova, Nina Timofeeva, Marina Kondratyeva, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ekaterina Maximova and Ludmila Semenyaka.

His students have included Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Andrey Uvarov, Sergei Filin, Ruslan Skvortsov and Artem Ovcharenko.

He was married to Irina Kholina, a ballerina, and had two sons: Aleksei Fadeyechev [ru], a choreographer for the Bolshoi,[4] and Aleksandr.