Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina (Russian: ????´?? ?????´???? ????´????, born Ninel Mikhaylova) (30 July 1926 – April 1990) was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis.
Academic research of her phenomenon was conducted in the USSR for the last 20 years of her life.
Kulagina was suspected of utilizing hidden magnets and threads to perform her feats.
She was caught cheating on more than one occasion, according to British authors Joel Levy and Mike Dash and American science writer Martin Gardner.
In 1987, Kulagina sued and won a partial victory in a defamation case brought against a Soviet government magazine that had accused her of fraud.