Nikolay Nikolayevich Gusakov (; May 14, 1934 – December 14, 1991) was a former Soviet nordic combined skier who won a bronze in the individual event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. He also won the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1961.

Gusakov trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow and later in Leningrad. He was the first Soviet athlete to win an Olympic medal in the Nordic combined and the first one to win the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival.

Nikolay Gusakov

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1934 births

1991 deaths

Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners

Nordic combined skiers at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Nordic combined skiers at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Nordic combined skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union

Olympic Nordic combined skiers for the Soviet Union

Soviet male Nordic combined skiers

Russian male Nordic combined skiers

Armed Forces (sports society) sportspeople

Olympic medalists in Nordic combined

Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Sportspeople from Petrozavodsk

Nikolay Gusakov