Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin (Russian: Виктор Иванович Чукарин, Ukrainian: Віктор Іванович Чукарін; 9 November 1921 – 25 August 1984) was a Ukrainian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union.

Chukarin was born in Krasnoarmeyskoye village in Donets Governorate[a] (modern-day Novoazovsk Raion of the Donetsk Oblast) to a Don Cossack father Ivan Evlampievich Chukarin and a Pontic Greek mother Hristina Klimentievna Lamizova.

As a result, he had low scores on the floor, yet he won six medals, including the individual all-around by a margin of 0.7 points.

[4][5] He recounted his sport career in the 1955 book entitled The Road to the Peaks (Put K Vershinam).

In 1961, he coached Armenian gymnastics team, and in 1963 became an assistant professor at the Lviv Institute of Physical Culture.