Nikolay Strazhesko (also transliterated as Mykola Strazhesko; 17 December 1876 - 27 June 1952) was a Ukrainian physiologist and therapist. Over his career, he worked in a variety of institutes and clinics, although he is perhaps most famous for founding and being the inaugural Director of the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Clinical Medicine. Born in Odesa, then part of the Russian Empire, Strazhesko first became a student at the Faculty of Medicine at the Kyiv Imperial University of St. Volodymyr. After graduating, he worked in the Clinic of Inner Diseases there, before going abroa