Nikolay Yefimovich Kruchina (Russian: ??????? ???????? ???????; 14 May 1928, Siberian Krai (now Altai Krai) - 26 August 1991, Moscow), was a top Soviet communist official, the administrator of affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) since 1983 and until his death, effectively the party's chief treasurer who was responsible for its enormous assets (popularly dubbed as the party's gold, Russian: ?????? ??????), estimated to be worth nearly $9 billion, which have never been located thereafter.