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Nikolai Karamzin

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (Николай Михайлович Карамзин) was a Russian writer and historian, leading exponent of sentimentalism and author of the 12-volume History of the Russian State.

Nikolai Kardashev, also known as Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev, was a Soviet and Russian radio astronomer who helped establish Soviet SETI, co-invented very-long-baseline interferometry, and proposed the Kardashev scale in 1964.

Nikolai Karlovich Giers

Nikolai Karlovich Girs (Николай Карлович Гирс; 1820–1895) was a Russian diplomat and statesman who served as foreign minister of the Russian Empire from 1882 to 1895.

Nikolai Kinski

Nikolai Kinski (Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski), French-American actor born 1976 in Paris, son of Klaus Kinski; UCLA-trained, based in Berlin, known for Yves Saint Laurent, Barbarians, Vikings: Valhalla, Masters of the Air.

Nikolai Klimov (Николай Н. Климов)

Nikolai N. Klimov (Николай Н. Климов) is a Russian-born American experimental physicist at NIST who led the Cold Atom Vacuum Standard and received the 2024 PECASE award.

Nikolai Klyuev

Nikolai Klyuev (Николай Алексеевич Клюев, 1884–1937) was a Russian poet of peasant origin who led the new peasant current in Silver Age poetry and was shot under Stalin.

Nikolai Kochetkov

Nikolai Kochetkov, also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Kochetkov, was a Soviet organic chemist (1915–2005) who created the orthoester method of glycosylation and first synthesized natural bacterial O-antigen polysaccharides.

Nikolai Kondratiev (Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев)

Nikolai Kondratiev (Николай Дмитриевич Кондратьев, 1892–1938) was a Soviet economist who founded Moscow's Institute of Conjuncture and identified fifty-year economic cycles, now called Kondratiev waves; he was executed in 1938 and rehabilitated in 1987.

Nikolai Kostomarov

Nikolai Kostomarov (Николай Костомаров) was a Russian and Ukrainian historian and writer, 1817 to 1885, exiled for founding the secret Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood and later a founder of populist Ukrainian historiography.

Nikolai Krasovsky

Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky (Николай Николаевич Красовский; 1924–2012) was a Russian mathematician who founded a major Ural school of control theory, known for the Krasovskii–LaSalle invariance principle.

Nikolai Krylenko

Nikolai Krylenko (Николай Крыленко) was a Soviet state official who was Supreme Commander-in-Chief in 1917, built the Soviet courts, prosecuted the Shakhty Trial, and was executed in 1938.

Nikolai Krylov

Nikolai Krylov, also known as Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov, was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who, with his student Nikolai Bogolyubov, founded nonlinear mechanics and created the Krylov–Bogolyubov averaging method.

Nikolai Kuznetsov (Николай Герасимович Кузнецов) (admiral)

Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov (Николай Герасимович Кузнецов), 1904–1974, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet and People's Commissar of the Navy 1939–1946; brought the fleet to readiness before the 1941 German invasion, was twice demoted, and gave his name to Russia's only aircraft carrier.

Nikolai Leskov

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Николай Лесков, 1831–1895), Russian writer and critic, pseudonym M. Stebnitsky, author of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The Enchanted Wanderer, and Levsha, master of skaz oral-style narration.

Nikolai Linevich

Nikolai Linevich (Николай Петрович Линевич) was a Russian general of infantry who stormed Beijing in 1900 and commanded Russian forces in the Far East from 1905 to 1906.

Nikolai Lobachevsky (Николай Иванович Лобачевский)

Nikolai Lobachevsky, also known as Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, was a Russian mathematician (1792–1856) who first published non-Euclidean, now hyperbolic, geometry while rector of Kazan University.

Nikolai Lukashenko (Николай Александрович Лукашенко)

Nikolai Lukashenko (Николай Лукашенко), born 2004, youngest son of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko; public figure since age four, Peking University biotechnology graduate, sanctioned by Canada in 2024, discussed as possible successor.

Nikolai Luzin

Nikolai Luzin, also known as Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who founded the Moscow school of function theory and descriptive set theory.

Nikolai Lvov

Nikolai Lvov (Николай Львов, 1751–1803) was a versatile Russian architect, poet, and engineer of the Enlightenment who compiled the first broad survey of Russian folk song.

Nikolai Makarov

Nikolai Makarov is a Russian mathematician, the Richard Merkin Professor of Mathematics at Caltech, known for his 1985 theorem that harmonic measure on simply connected planar domains has Hausdorff dimension 1.

Nikolai Marr

Nikolai Marr, also known as Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr, was a Soviet linguist and archaeologist who excavated Ani and created the Japhetic theory of language, condemned by Stalin in 1950.

Nikolai Mikhailovsky

Nikolai Mikhailovsky (Николай Михайловский), 1842 to 1904, was a Russian publicist, sociologist, and literary critic, a leading theorist of populism who edited Otechestvennye zapiski and Russkoe bogatstvo.

Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay

Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (Николай Миклухо-Маклай) was a Russian explorer, anthropologist, and ethnographer best known for living among the Papuans of New Guinea, where the Maclay Coast still bears his name.

Nikolai Mnev

Nikolai Mnev (Николай Евгеньевич Мнёв, born 1957) is a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute's St. Petersburg branch, known for the universality theorem and winning the Fulkerson Prize.

Nikolai Mordvinov

Nikolai Mordvinov (Николай Семёнович Мордвинов) was a Russian admiral, statesman, and economist who became the first naval minister in 1802 and chaired State Council departments.

Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky

Nikolai Muravyov-Amursky (Николай Николаевич Муравьёв-Амурский) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, governor-general of Eastern Siberia from 1847 to 1861 who negotiated the 1858 Treaty of Aigun with China.

Nikolai Nekrasov

Nikolai Nekrasov (Николай Некрасов, 1821–1877) was a Russian poet, editor, and publisher who made peasant life his central subject and ran Sovremennik, the leading literary journal of his day.

Nikolai Novikov

Nikolai Novikov (Николай Иванович Новиков), 1744 to 1818, was a Russian publisher and leading Freemason whose satirical journals shaped Enlightenment journalism before his 1792 imprisonment.

Nikolai Novosiltsev

Nikolai Novosiltsev was a Russian statesman, a close associate of Alexander I, president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences from 1803 to 1810, and later chairman of the State Council.