| Nikolay Gikalo | |
| Birth Date: | 8 March 1897 |
| Birth Place: | Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Moscow, USSR |
| Office: | First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party |
| Term Start: | April 1929 |
| Term End: | June 1929 |
| Office1: | First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party |
| Term Start1: | August 1929 |
| Term End1: | June 1930 |
| Office2: | First Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party |
| Term Start2: | January 1932 |
| Term End2: | March 1937 |
| Office3: | First Secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine |
| Term Start3: | March 1937 |
| Term End3: | October 1937 |
| Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917–1937) |
| Predecessor: | Kuprian Kirkizh |
| Successor: | Isaak Zelensky |
| Predecessor1: | Levon Mirzoyan |
| Successor1: | Vladimir Polonsky |
| Predecessor2: | Konstantin Gey |
| Successor2: | Vasily Sharangovich |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Гика́ло; March 8, 1897 – April 25, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and statesman.
He was born in Odessa into a Ukrainian peasant family. From 1915 he served in the Russian Imperial Army, in 1917 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). He commanded the Red Army in the fight against the White Army in the Northern Caucasus. He was first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from April 1929 to June 11, 1929, first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan from 1929 to August 1930, first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from January 18, 1932, to March 18, 1937. During the Great Purge, Gikalo was arrested, accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on April 25, 1938. He was exonerated posthumously in 1955.[1]
A city in Chechnya is named after him.