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Nikolai P. Lavyorov
Nikolai P. Lavyorov (Николай Павлович Лавёров) was a Soviet and Russian geologist who founded uranium deposit research and served as vice president of the Academy of Sciences for 25 years.
Nikolai Patrushev (Николай Платонович Патрушев)
Nikolai Patrushev (Николай Платонович Патрушев), born 1951 in Leningrad, Russian security official: FSB director 1999-2008, Security Council secretary 2008-2024, now presidential aide for shipbuilding and Maritime Collegium chairman, Putin's long-serving hawkish ally.
Nikolai Petrov
Nikolai Petrov, also known as Nikolay Petrov, was a Soviet and Russian concert pianist who won silver at the 1962 Van Cliburn Competition and recorded Russian repertoire on Melodiya.
Nikolai Przhevalsky
Nikolai Przhevalsky (Николай Михайлович Пржевальский) was a Russian explorer and geographer, born in 1839, whose Central Asian expeditions mapped Mongolia and Tibet and discovered Przhevalsky's horse.
Nikolai Repnin
Nikolai Repnin, Prince Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin (1734–1801), was a Russian prince, diplomat, and field marshal who dictated Poland's Treaty of Warsaw in 1768 and won the 1791 Battle of Machin.
Nikolai Rezanov
Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov (Николай Петрович Резанов) was a Russian nobleman and administrator who co-founded the Russian-American Company, led the first Russian round-the-world expedition of 1803–1806, and headed a failed embassy to Japan.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, 1844–1908), Russian composer, Mighty Five member, professor at the St Petersburg Conservatory 1871–1908, author of Scheherazade, Sadko, and Principles of Orchestration.
Nikolai Rubinstein (Николай Григорьевич Рубинштейн)
Nikolai Rubinstein (Николай Григорьевич Рубинштейн, 1835–1881), Russian pianist, conductor, and pedagogue, younger brother of Anton Rubinstein; founded the Moscow Conservatory and its RMS branch, first director 1866–1881, Tchaikovsky's mentor.
Nikolai Rubtsov
Nikolai Rubtsov (Николай Михайлович Рубцов, 1936–1971) was a Soviet Russian lyric poet, leading figure of the "quiet lyric" current, known for "Star of the Fields".
Nikolai Ruzsky
Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzsky (Николай Владимирович Рузский) was a Russian general of infantry who pressed Nicholas II to abdicate at Pskov in March 1917 and was killed by the Bolshevik Cheka in October 1918.
Nikolai Rysakov (Николай Иванович Рысаков)
Nikolai Ivanovich Rysakov was a Russian revolutionary of Narodnaya Volya who threw the first bomb in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in Saint Petersburg in 1881.
Nikolai Shchors
Nikolai Shchors (Николай Щорс) was a Ukrainian-born Red Army divisional commander of the Russian Civil War who formed the Bohun Regiment and was killed in battle in 1919.
Nikolai Shvernik
Nikolai Shvernik (Николай Шверник) was a Soviet party official who served as the USSR's constitutional head of state from 1946 to 1953, after leading the trade unions.
Nikolai Sobolev (Николай Владимирович Соболев)
Nikolai Sobolev (Николай Владимирович Соболев) was a Russian mineralogist and petrologist in Novosibirsk, an Academician best known for proving diamond inclusions are syngenetic and opening ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic diamond study.
Nikolai Spafarii
Nikolai Spafarii (Николай Спафарий), born Nicolae Milescu Spătaru, was a Moldavian-born scholar and diplomat in Russian service who led an embassy to China in 1675–1678.
Nikolai Strakhov
Nikolai Strakhov, full name Nikolai Nikolaevich Strakhov (Николай Николаевич Страхов, 1828–1896), was a Russian philosopher, publicist, and literary critic, an ideologist of pochvennichestvo and Dostoevsky's first biographer.
Nikolai Sukhanov
Nikolai Sukhanov (Николай Суханов), born Nikolai Gimmer, was a Russian Menshevik revolutionary and economist who wrote a memoir of the 1917 Revolution and was executed in 1940.
Nikolai Tarakanov (Николай Дмитриевич Тараканов)
Nikolai Dmitrievich Tarakanov (Николай Дмитриевич Тараканов), born 1934, is a Soviet major general of Civil Defense who commanded the 1986 Chernobyl roof cleanup and the 1988 Spitak rescue; played by Ralph Ineson in HBO's Chernobyl.
Nikolai Tolstoy
Nikolai Tolstoy (Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky, born 23 June 1935) is an Anglo-Russian historian, biographer, and novelist of the Tolstoy family, known for Victims of Yalta, The Minister and the Massacres, the Aldington libel case, and Merlin studies.
Nikolai Valuev (Николай Сергеевич Валуев)
Nikolai Valuev (Николай Сергеевич Валуев), "The Russian Giant", born 1973, is a Russian State Duma deputy and former two-time WBA heavyweight boxing champion, the tallest and heaviest champion in history, retiring at 50-2 (34 KOs).
Nikolai Vatutin (Николай Фёдорович Ватутин)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin (Николай Фёдорович Ватутин, 1901–1944), Soviet general of the army; commanded Voronezh, Southwestern, and 1st Ukrainian Fronts at Stalingrad, Kursk, and the liberation of Kyiv; mortally wounded by Ukrainian nationalists in 1944; his monuments in Ukraine were dismantled from 2023.
Nikolai Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов)
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов), Soviet geneticist and botanist, father of genebanks; proposed eight centers of origin of cultivated plants, collected 250,000+ seed samples, arrested 1940 under Lysenko's influence, died of starvation in Saratov prison in 1943.
Nikolai Volkoff
Nikolai Volkoff (Josip Nikolai Peruzović, 1947–2018) was a Croatian-born WWE wrestler famous as a Soviet villain, singing the USSR anthem, and winning the WWF Tag Team Championship with The Iron Sheik at WrestleMania I.
Nikolai von Bismarck
Nikolai von Bismarck (born 1986, London) is a British-German photographer, great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, known for The Dior Sessions and The Fendi Set, portrait and reportage work, and experimental processes like collodion wet plate and expired Polaroid.
Nikolai Voznesensky
Nikolai Voznesensky (Николай Алексеевич Вознесенский, 1903–1950) was a Soviet economic planner who headed Gosplan, directed the wartime economy, and was executed in 1950 in the Leningrad Affair.
Nikolai Yaroshenko
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Ukrainian: Микола Ярошенко, 1846–1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who led the Peredvizhniki and retired as a major-general to paint full time.
Nikolai Yazykov
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Yazykov (Николай Михайлович Языков, 1803–1846) was a Russian Romantic poet and friend of Pushkin, famed for student songs, elegies, and mastery of language.
Nikolai Yevdokimov
Nikolai Yevdokimov (Николай Иванович Евдокимов; 1804–1873) was a Russian count and general who completed the annexation of the Caucasus, forcing Imam Shamil to surrender in 1859.
Nikolai Yezhov (Николай Иванович Ежов)
Nikolai Yezhov was a Soviet official who headed the NKVD secret police from 1936 to 1938, directing the Great Purge; he was executed in 1940.
Nikolai Yudenich
Nikolai Yudenich (Николай Николаевич Юденич, 1862–1933), Russian general of infantry, victor of Sarikamish, Erzurum, Trebizond, and Erzincan against the Ottomans; last Knight of the Order of St George 2nd class; led the White Northwest Army's failed 1919 offensives on Petrograd.