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Nikola Tesla power station
The Nikola Tesla power station (TENT) is a group of lignite-fired power plants near Obrenovac, Serbia, operated by Elektroprivreda Srbije and supplying about half of Serbia's electricity.
Nikola Tomeckova Brejchova
Nikola Tomečková-Brejchová, Czech javelin thrower born 1974 in Zlín; three Olympics (1996, 2000, 2004), fourth at Athens 2004, personal best 65.91 m, twelve-time Czech champion.
Nikola Uzunović
Nikola Uzunović (Никола Узуновић; 1873–1954) was a Serbian and Yugoslav Radical Party politician and lawyer who twice served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Nikola Vaptsarov
Nikola Vaptsarov (Никола Вапцаров) was a Bulgarian poet, marine engineer, and communist revolutionary. Executed by firing squad in Sofia in 1942, he is best known for Motor Songs (1940), his only lifetime collection.
Nikola Vlašić
Nikola Vlašić, Croatian footballer (born 1997, Split), attacking midfielder for Torino and Croatia; formerly Hajduk Split, Everton, CSKA Moscow, West Ham; 68 caps, 11 goals.
Nikola Vučević
Nikola Vučević, Montenegrin NBA center (born 1990, 6'9"), drafted 16th in 2011 by Philadelphia; two-time All-Star with Orlando Magic 2012–21, Chicago Bulls 2021–26, Boston Celtics 2026, re-signed by Orlando July 2026 on a one-year $3.9M deal; 17,000+ career points.
Nikola Zhekov
Nikola Zhekov (Никола Жеков) was a Bulgarian infantry general, minister of war in 1915 and commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian army on the Balkan Front from 1915 to 1918.
Nikola Zlatarski
Nikola Zlatarski (1823–1876) was a Bulgarian teacher in Tarnovo and activist in the movement for an independent Bulgarian church, known as the father of historian Vasil Zlatarski.
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Dutch-born British ethologist at Oxford, a founding father of ethology who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch.
Nikolaeva Patera
Nikolaeva Patera is a 100-km-wide patera on Venus at 33.9N 267.5E, IAU-approved in 2006 and named for Russian planetologist Olga V. Nikolaeva (1941-2000), one of 73 named Venusian paterae.
Nikolai Berdyaev (Николай Александрович Бердяев)
Nikolai Berdyaev (Николай Бердяев) was a Russian Orthodox religious philosopher known for Christian personalism and the claim that freedom is uncreated, expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922.
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Nikolai Bogolyubov was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist, born in 1909, who created the microscopic theory of superfluidity and directed the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna from 1965 to 1989.
Nikolai Bukharin (Николай Иванович Бухарин)
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (Николай Иванович Бухарин, 1888–1938), Bolshevik theorist and economist, Politburo member 1924–1929, Comintern chairman from 1926, Pravda editor, leader of the party 'right deviation' against Stalin, executed after the 1938 Moscow trial and rehabilitated in 1988.
Nikolai Bulganin (Николай Александрович Булганин)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin (Николай Александрович Булганин), Soviet premier 1955–1958 between Malenkov and Khrushchev; Marshal of the Soviet Union 1947–1958; born 1895 Nizhny Novgorod, died 1975 Moscow; fell in 1958 after the antiparty-group affair.
Nikolai Chebotaryov
Nikolai Chebotaryov (Николай Чеботарёв) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who proved the Chebotarev density theorem in 1922, settling Frobenius's conjecture on the distribution of primes, and taught at Kazan University.
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Chernyshevsky (Николай Гаврилович Чернышевский) was a Russian writer and critic, the main theorist of democratic radicalism in the 1860s, whose novel What Is to Be Done? inspired generations of revolutionaries.
Nikolai Chkheidze
Nikolai Chkheidze (Николай Семёнович Чхеидзе, 1864–1926) was a Georgian Menshevik politician who chaired the Petrograd Soviet and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Nikolai Cholodny
Nikolai Cholodny (Микола Холодний) was a Ukrainian plant physiologist whose 1927 hormonal theory of tropisms, the Cholodny–Went hypothesis, remains the dominant explanation of how roots bend toward gravity.
Nikolai Danilevsky
Nikolai Danilevsky (Николай Яковлевич Данилевский) was a Russian naturalist and theorist of civilizations whose 1869 book Russia and Europe divided history into 13 cultural-historical types, anticipating Spengler and Toynbee.
Nikolai Dobrolyubov
Nikolai Dobrolyubov (Николай Александрович Добролюбов, 1836–1861) was a Russian literary critic, publicist, and poet who led criticism at Sovremennik, developed "real criticism," and died of tuberculosis at twenty-five.
Nikolai Durov (Николай Валерьевич Дуров)
Nikolai Valeryevich Durov is a Russian mathematician from St. Petersburg, senior researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, who co-founded VKontakte and Telegram and designed the MTProto protocol.
Nikolai Erdman
Nikolai Erdman (Николай Эрдман, 1900–1970) was a Soviet playwright and screenwriter from Moscow whose comedy The Suicide was banned and ended his career as a dramatist.
Nikolai Fraiture
Nikolai Fraiture, full name Nikolai Philippe Fraiture, is an American musician born in 1978 in New York City, best known as the bassist of the Strokes.
Nikolai Ge
Nikolai Ge, also known as Mykola Ge, was a Russian and Ukrainian painter of French descent and a founder of the Peredvizhniki, known for "The Last Supper".
Nikolai Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь)
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, born Nikolai Vasilyevich Yanovsky, was a Russian-language prose writer of Ukrainian origin, counted among classics of Russian literature and a founder of Russian realism.
Nikolai Golitsyn
Nikolai Dmitrievich Golitsyn (Николай Дмитриевич Голицын, 1850–1925), Russian prince and last chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire, December 1916 to February 1917; former governor of Arkhangelsk, Kaluga, and Tver.
Nikolai Grundtvig
Nikolai Grundtvig, full name Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, was a Danish Lutheran clergyman, poet, hymn-writer, educator, and politician whose 1825 theology inspired Denmark's folk high schools.
Nikolai Gumilyov
Nikolai Gumilyov (Николай Гумилёв) was a Russian poet, born in 1886, who co-founded the Acmeist movement, fought as a decorated officer in World War I, and was executed in 1921.
Nikolai Holmboe
Nikolai Elde Holmboe, Norwegian cross-country skier born 2002 in Bærum, twin brother of Aleksander Holmboe; won two golds and a silver at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics, later World Cup sprint racer for Bærums Verk og Hauger IF.
Nikolai Ivanov
Nikolai Ivanov (Николай Иудович Иванов) was a Russian general of artillery who commanded the Southwestern Front from 1914, won the Galician battle, and was entrusted by Nicholas II with suppressing the 1917 revolution in Petrograd.