| Intro | Russian writer |
| Was | Writer |
| From |
South Africa Russia |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
22 June 1896, Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, Russia |
| Death |
2 October 1961 |
Nikolai Shpanov (Николай Николаевич Шпанов, Nikolay Shpanov, Nikolai Španov) (1896–1961) was a Russian political writer, who wrote Incendiaries, 1949, in which he described the lead-up of the Second World War.