Nikolai Kapitonovich Svobodin (Russian: Николай Капитонович Свободин; 20 May 1898 – 20 September 1965) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and theater pedagogue.

He was born in village Uzmorye, Novouzensky Uyezd as Nikolai Kapitonovich Pechkin (Russian: Печкин).

[1] He became a member of Moscow Art Theatre in 1938.

He taught at Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts from 1934 to 1941, and at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography from 1963 to 1964.

He died in Moscow, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.