Nikolay Andreyevich Prishchepa (Russian: Николай Андреевич Прищепа; 14 April 1900 – 18 August 1941) was a Ukrainian Red Army major general killed in World War II.

After the German occupation of Kiev, the detachment retreated to Bryansk, subsequently fighting against the Ukrainian People's Army, Polish troops, and the Armed Forces of South Russia.

Transferred to command a separate machine gun district of the 54th Fortified Region during January 1933, he entered the main faculty of the Frunze Military Academy in April of that year.

[2] Just before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, the division became part of the 66th Rifle Corps.

[1] After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the division and its corps became part of the 21st Army of the Reserve of the Supreme Command in late June.

The troops of the army repulsed German attacks during the Battle of Smolensk near Rogachev and Zhlobin and briefly recaptured them on 13 July after a counterattack.

During fierce defensive fighting near the village of Selivanovo, Prishchepa was seriously wounded on 14 August by a bullet that damaged his spinal cord, losing the use of his legs.