Mykola Kulikowskyj (Микола Куліковський, Mykola Kulikovs'kyi, also spelled Kulykowskyj, Kulykiwskyj, Kulikiwskyj, and Куликівський) was a lieutenant colonel in the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence. He was born in the town of Torchyn, Volyn' gubernia of the Russian Empire (now Luts'k raion, Volyns'ka oblast', Ukraine). He graduated from Volyn Theological Seminary. He served in the Russian Imperial army, first as a private in the 124th Voronezh (Kharkiv) Infantry Regiment beginning in 1905, and then the 21st Siberian Rifle Regiment beginning in 1911. With the outbreak of World War I, he was commissioned a lieutenant. In November of 1914 he was captured by the Germans as a prisoner of war. In 1916 he was involved in the creation Ukrainian national organizations within the German POW camps Russian army. He became one of the organizers of the 1st Ukrainian Taras Shevchenko Regiment. Beginning in January, 1918 he served in the 1st Ukrainian ("Synozhupanniy") Division, and in 1919 became the chief of staff of the investigatory department of the headquarters of the Black Sea division of the Acting UNR Army. In March, 1919 he became the commandant of the armored train "Zaporozhets." Beginning in June, 1920, he served as sergeant for communication between Petliura and the Prime Minister.

He lived in exile in Warsaw from 1923-1945, then in Munich and the Stuttgart Zuffenhausen displaced person camp. He emigrated in the United States in 1950, where he lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Bridgeport, Connecticut, and South Bound Brook, New Jersey. He died on November 26, 1956 and is buried in St. Andrew Cemetery in South Bound Brook, NJ.