Nikolay or Nikolai Makarov may refer to: Nikolay Makarov (firearms designer) (1914–1988), Soviet firearms designer Nikolai Georgievich Makarov (born 1955), Russian mathematician Nikolay Mikhaylovich Makarov (born 1948), Soviet ice hockey player Nikolay Makarov (general) (born 1949), Russian general and Chief of the General Staff