Nora Pavlovna Chegodayeva (Russian: Нора Павловна Чегодаева; 1905–1971) was a Soviet interpreter and translator.

Her father was Pavel Chegodayev, a revolutionary and lawyer who would hold several important offices at the People's Commissariat of Justice after the Russian Revolution of 1917.

[1] The young Nora Chegodayeva was well-educated and became fluent in both French and Spanish at an early age.

[1] She continued to serve in the military after returning from Spain and held several assignments after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II.

She served in the intelligence on the Volkhov Front and later organized a women's sniper training course that would become famous after its later reorganization as the Central Women’s Sniper Training School, but was recalled from this position soon after in order to assist the Soviet diplomatic service in Havana with her fluent Spanish when the Soviet Union first established diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1943.