Nikolai Mikhailovich Karinsky (Russian: Николай Михайлович Каринский; Vyatka, Russian Empire, 22 March 1873 – Moscow, Soviet Union, 14 December 1935) was a Russian linguist, dialectologist, Slavist, correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1921, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1925.

[1] He graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1896.

From 1931 he was the head of the Dialektography Commission of the Language and Thought Institute of the USSR.

[2] He authored numerous works on the History of Russian and Old Bulgarian Languages, Russian dialects,[3] and Slavic paleography.

When the Saint Petersburg Public Library decided to prepare a folder of their most valuable Slavic manuscripts, Karinsky, a lecturer in paleography at the Archeological Institute, was chosen to select and edit the Slavic material.