Nikolai Ostroumov

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| name = Nikolai Ostroumov

| native_name = Николай Остроумов

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1846|11|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sasovo, Yelatma Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|11|17|1846|11|15|df=y}}

| death_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union

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Nikolai Petrovich Ostroumov ({{langx|ru|Николай Петрович Остроумов}}; 1846–1930) was an imperial Russian orientalist, ethnographer and educationalist in Turkestan.

He studied under Nikolai Il'minskii at the Kazan Theological Seminary, where he studied Arabic and Turkic languages as well as Islam.[http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ord516=OrgaGrp&ots591=0C54E3B3-1E9C-BE1E-2C24-A6A8C7060233&lng=en&id=47282 Islam in the Russian Federation and the Post Soviet Republics: a Historical perspective] by Spyros Plakoudas, p 31

He was editor of Turkistan Wilayatining Gazeti from 1883 to 1917.