Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny (18 February 1903 to 12 January 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman. He served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1957 to 1963 and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1965 to 1977. He was replaced as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977 by General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
