Nikolay Petrovich Krasnikov (Russian: Николай Петрович Красников; born November 1921, Buzuluk) was active in Soviet academia as a philosopher, historian, and religious scholar.
For participation in the liberation of the Taman Peninsula in the autumn of 1943 he was awarded the Medal "For Battle Merit".
In July 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his participation in the liberation of Kerch and Sevastopol.
[2] In 1961, Krasnikov earned a Candidate of Sciences degree, having defended a dissertation on the theme "Strengthening the Alliance of the Working Class and the Collective Farm Peasantry in the Struggle of the Communist Party for the Steep Rise of Agriculture (1956–1958)".
In 1976, Krasnikov defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Socio-Ethical Views of Russian Orthodoxy: (Critical Analysis)".