Nikifor Kalchenko

{{Short description|Ukrainian and Soviet politician (1906–1989)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Nykyfor Tymofiyovych Kalchenko

| native_name = Никифор Тимофійович Кальченко

| native_name_lang = uk

| birth_date = 9 February [O.S. 27 January], 1906

| birth_place = Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = 14 May, 1989 (aged 83)

| death_place = Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union

| occupation = Politician

| known_for = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR

}}

Nykyfor Tymofiyovych Kalchenko ({{langx|uk|Никифор Тимофійович Кальченко}}; {{OldStyleDate|9 February|1906|27 January}} – 14 May 1989) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR (equivalent of today's prime-minister).{{cite web |url=http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?showHidden=1&art_id=1261530&cat_id=661258 |title=Урядовий портал :: Керівники урядів Української Радянської Соціалістичної Республіки |website=www.kmu.gov.ua |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007222359/http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?showHidden=1&art_id=1261530&cat_id=661258 |archive-date=2012-10-07}}

Nykyfor Kalchenko was born in a peasant family in a small village Koshmanovka in Poltava Governorate (now Poltava Oblast).{{cn|date=October 2024}}

In 1928 he graduated Poltava Agriculture Institute.{{cn|date=October 2024}}