Nykyfor Tymofiyovych Kalchenko (Ukrainian: Никифор Тимофійович Кальчекно; 9 February [O.S. 27 January] 1906 – 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).^[1]

Nykyfor Kalchenko was born in a peasant family in a small village Koshmanovka in Poltava Governorate (now Poltava Oblast).^{[citation needed]}

In 1928 he graduated Poltava Agriculture Institute.^{[citation needed]}

• Hero of Socialist Labour (February 6, 1976) ^[2]
• 8 Orders of Lenin (February 7, 1939; May 29, 1945; January 23, 1948; February 8, 1956; February 26, 1958; February 8, 1966; December 8, 1973; February 6, 1976)^[2]

• Order of the October Revolution (August 27, 1971)^[2]
• Order of the Red Banner (April 6, 1945)^[2]
• 2 Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 1st class (May 29, 1944; July 29, 1944)^[2]
• Medal "For Labour Valour" (December 25, 1959)^[2]