Nikolay Aleksandrovich Nikitin (Russian: Николай Александрович Никитин; 19 December 1900 – 9 November 1984) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held corps and division command during World War II.

An ordinary soldier of the Russian Civil War, Nikitin became an officer and served in Central Asia and Ukraine during the interwar period.

A corps chief of staff when Operation Barbarossa began, Nikitin escaped encirclement and rose to command the 153rd Rifle Division during the Battle of Stalingrad.

In battle near Yelets at the beginning of October he was wounded and concussed, after which he was in the hospital in Zadonsk and with the convalescent detachment in Voronezh until February 1920.

[2] After recovering, Nikitin was sent to serve as a Red Army man in the 46th Howitzer Heavy Artillery Battalion of the 46th Yekaterinoslav Rifle Division.

[1] With the division, he fought against the Army of Wrangel on the Isthmus of Perekop and the Chonhar Peninsula, participating in the elimination of a White landing in the Melitopol area, battles on the lower Dnieper, the Perekop-Chongar Offensive and the suppression of anti-Soviet forces in Crimea.

[2][1] Nikitin was transferred to the 14th Red Banner Mountain Rifle Regiment in Termez in December 1930, serving as a company commander.

Escaping with a group of commanders, armed, uniformed, and with his documents, now-Colonel Nikitin was appointed chief of the combat training department of the headquarters of the 40th Army of the Southwestern Front in November.

Sent to advanced training courses at the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy in November, he was appointed chief of staff of the 35th Rifle Corps after graduating in June 1943.

Nikitin participated in the Battle of Kursk and the Bryansk offensive and on 17 August received the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, for his performance.

The 35th and its army transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front on 16 April for the Berlin offensive, in which it crossed the Oder in May, reaching the Elbe northeast of Magdeburg at the end of the war.

Promoted to lieutenant general on 11 July,[8] he led the 17th Rifle Corps in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, in which it participated in the Harbin–Kirin offensive.

Nikitin commanded the 79th Rifle Corps of the 3rd Shock Army in the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany from June of that year.