Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Голу́шко; Ukrainian: Микола Михайлович Голушко; born 21 June 1937) is a former minister and KGB officer.
He worked in KGB from 1963 on (for many years as an officer in the Fifth department,[1] that aimed at suppressing 'ideological diversions' and political dissent).
From 1987 to 1991 Golushko was the chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Ukrainian SSR (KDB).
From July to December 1993 Golushko as acting minister of security of the Russian Federation.
According to Yevgenia Albats, Golushko was forced to step down in 1994, after he had refused Yeltsin's request to bar State Duma from granting amnesty to the October 1993 rebels.