Mykola Shytyuk (Ukrainian: ?????? ??????????? ?????; 30 November 1953 – 1 September 2018) was a Ukrainian academician, historian, doctor of historical sciences.
Since 2008 he was a director of the Institute of history and law of the Mykolaiv University.Shytnyuk was born on 30 November 1953 in the village Lysa Hora, Lysa Hora Raion (today Pervomaisk Raion) in a family of construction engineer and teacher of geography.
After graduating a rural school in Lysa Hora, Shytyuk enrolled in pedagogic uchilishche (junior college) in Novyi Buh, where he graduated in 1972 with a diploma of teacher of early grades.
After that throughout most of the 1970s he worked in several schools of Mykolaiv Oblast with a small break when he served his military obligation in Belorussian Military District.After being demobilized, in 1975 Shytyuk also enrolled in the history faculty of the Kiev University.On 1 September 2018 the scientist and researcher of Holodomor was found dead in an apartment in Mykolaiv with a knife in his back.