Nikolai Stepanovich Nikitchenko (Russian: Николай Степанович Никитченко; 17 December 1901 – 1 April 1975) was a Soviet Army major general.

In October 1930 he transferred to the VTsIK Combined Military School in Moscow, where he served as a tactics instructor and chief of a cadet battalion.

From November of that year he commanded a cadet battalion at the VTsIK Combined Military School, then from August 1937 was a tactics instructor at the Ivanovo Reserve Officers Improvement Course (KUKS).

[1] After Operation Barbarossa began, then-Colonel Nikitchenko oversaw the formation of the Ufa Infantry School from July 1941, organizing the training process and preparing command personnel for the frontline.

In late September the division was sent to fight in the Battle of Stalingrad and on 18 October 1942 joined the 66th Army of the Don Front.

[2] After the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the division was withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command before joining the 5th Guards Army.

In late September and early October during the Battle of the Dnieper the division fought in heavy offensive battles in the Pyatikhatka sector, covering the right flank of the breakthrough of the 5th Guards Tank Army, then attacked towards Aleksandriya, ensuring the junction of the 5th Guards and 57th Armies.

From January 1950 to August 1951, Nikitchenko was at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate due to illness, then was appointed chief of a course of the correspondence department of the Frunze Military Academy.