Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba[a] (1 May 1893 – 28 December 1936) was an Abkhaz Communist leader.

Lakoba helped establish Bolshevik power in Abkhazia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and
served as the head of Abkhazia after its conquest by the Bolshevik Red Army in 1921. While in power,
Lakoba saw that Abkhazia was initially given autonomy within the USSR as the Socialist Soviet
Republic of Abkhazia. Though nominally a part of the Georgian Soviet So