Pavel Filippovich Nilin (????? ?????????? ?????, January 16 [o.s.
January 3] 1908, Irkutsk, Russian Empire – October 2, 1981, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet writer, journalist and playwright, best known for a novel called A Man Goes Uphill (1936), adapted to the big screen under the title A Great Life, for which he, as a scriptwriter, received the Stalin Prize in 1941.