| Nikolay Vereshchagin | |
| Native Name: | Николай Верещагин |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Pronunciation: | nʲikʌɭˈɑj vʲirʲiɕˈɑɡʲin |
| Birth Date: | 25 October 1839 |
| Birth Place: | Cherepovets, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Pertovka estate, Cherepovetsky Uyezd, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Education: | Naval Cadet Corps (1856) |
| Years Active: | 1866–1898 |
| Known For: | being one of the organisers of mass cheese and butter production in Russia |
| Family: | Vereshchagin |
Nikolay Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (; ) was a Russian entrepreneur who belonged to the organisers of the mass Russian cheese and butter industry; a rural manager-practitioner known for his labours to improve the homegrown dairy farming industry, founder of the first Russian artel cheese factories. A nobleman.
In 1850 Nikolai entered the Naval Cadet Corps at his father's behest, and graduated from it. He became a midshipman, then a lieutenant, and received a medal for military operations during the Crimean War in the Gulf of Finland.
In 1856 Nikolai Vereshchagin entered the Faculty of Natural Sciences at St. Petersburg University.
In Switzerland, in the town of Kopne near Geneva, he gets a job as an apprentice in a cheese factory to learn how to make cheese.
Nikolai Vasilyevich tried to set up the first cheese factory in the village of Gorodnya, but without success.
From 1866 to 1868 Vereshchagin opened more than a dozen artel cheese factories in Tverskoy and Korchevskoy Uezds.
Brothers:
His wife was Tatyana (nee Vanina, a former serf)