Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov (Russian: Николай Александрович Михайлов; 10 October 1906 – 25 May 1982) was a Soviet politician, journalist, diplomat, Komsomol and Communist Party official.

[2] After the Great Purge, Mikhailov was appointed First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in 1939 and held the position until 1952; at the age of 46, he was still leader of the country's youth (he was succeeded in 1952 by the much younger Alexander Shelepin).

He was selected in January 1952 to be the main speaker at the ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Lenin, and devoted almost the entire speech to the "Doctors' Plot".

[4]On 7 March 1953, shortly after Stalin's death, Mikhailov replaced Nikita Khrushchev as first secretary of the Moscow provincial party organisation.

He was a member of the Special Judicial Hearings of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union in December 1953, who sentenced Lavrentiy Beria and a number of people close to him to capital punishment.

[6] Mikhailov was removed from his post as head of the Moscow party organisation on 31 March 1954, and appointed Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Polish People's Republic.