Nikolai Sudarikov

{{Short description|Soviet diplomat}}

Nikolai Georgiyevich Sudarikov ({{langx|ru|Николай Георгиевич Судариков}}), (2 February 1913 - 2000),{{cite web|url=http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/00011.asp|script-title=ru:Миссия - Посольство СССР в Австралии|publisher=Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991|accessdate=2009-08-02|language=ru|title=00011 }} was a Soviet diplomat.

On 20 October 1979, Sudarikov was appointed Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to Fiji.{{cite web|url=http://www.knowbysight.info/6_MID/08129.asp|script-title=ru:Фиджи|publisher=Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991|accessdate=2009-08-02|language=ru|title=08129 }} He was relieved of his post on 23 April 1983 by the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and entered into retirement, a day after the Australian government expelled First Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Canberra Valery Ivanov on suspicions of being a spy.{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2953D68590203&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=New Soviet envoy named|date=24 April 1983|publisher=Philadelphia Inquirer|pages=A19|accessdate=2009-08-02}}