Nikolai Arsenevich Strelkov (Russian: Николай Арсеньевич Стрелков) was a Russian Social Democratic (Menshevik) politician. He was born in 1879. Strelkov hailed from a noble family, his father being a State Councillor. As of 1919 he served as the editor of Vestnik Manchurii, a daily newspaper. He worked as a literature teacher at the Harbin Commercial College and the Harbin Gymnasium (of the YMCA) in the 1920s. The latter institution had been opened by YMCA in Harbin in 1925, following the Russian pre-revolution curriculum.