Nikolay Ivanovich Gapich (1901–1964) was a Soviet military leader, Major General of the Signal Corps (June 4, 1940).

Afterwards in August he served as Assistant to the Chief of Communications of the 3rd Amur Rifle Division; in September he became Chief of Communications of the Special Amur Rifle Regiment, then in October the assistant and temporary acting commander of the telegraph company of the headquarters of the Commander–in–Chief of Siberia Vasily Shorin.

Then he studied at the Vladivostok infantry school, after which in November 1925, he was appointed commander of a separate communications company of the 1st Rifle Division.

[3] Here Gapich prepared several textbooks on the communications service, scientific works[5] and received the title of associate professor of the Academy.

From October 1940 to June 1941, he repeatedly addressed reports on the need to urgently rectify matters to People's Commissar of Defense Semyon Timoshenko, Chiefs of the General Staff Kirill Meretskov and Georgy Zhukov, and Chairman of the Defense Committee under the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov, but the measures he proposed were not implemented.

[2][6] According to the memoirs of the future Marshal of the Signal Corps Ivan Peresypkin, this happened during the report of Nikolai Gapich to Joseph Stalin on the state of communications in the troops.

After being subjected to torture, he denounced himself and admitted that since 1935 he was a member of an anti-Soviet organization in the Belarusian Military District headed by Ieronim Uborevich.

By the decree of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union of October 2, 1952, he was deprived of the military rank "Major General".

After being at the disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, he was transferred to the reserve on October 21, 1953, for health reasons.