Nikolai Alekseevich Korolev (1913, Kotovo, Moscow Province - 1938, Moscow ) - USSR champion in cross-country skiing in 1937. Master of Sports of the USSR .
He played for the sports society "Spartak". He studied at the Institute of Physical Education in the second year.
In the USSR championship in ski racing in 1937, he became a champion in the 20 km race and a silver medalist in the 50 km race.
January 31, 1938 was arrested and sentenced to death. Went through the fabricated case of a “counter-revolutionary espionage-terrorist organization in the system of physical education organizations in Moscow” on charges of planning a terrorist act against the Soviet government.