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Nikolay Chernetsky
Nikolay Chernetsky (Николай Чернецкий), Soviet 400 m sprinter born 1959 in Frunze/Bishkek; Olympic 4x400 m relay gold at Moscow 1980 and world relay gold at Helsinki 1983; later a coach in Italy.
Nikolay Chetaev
Nikolay Chetaev (Николай Гурьевич Четаев, 1902–1959) was a Soviet mathematician and mechanician known for Chetaev's instability theorem and for founding the Kazan school of stability theory.
Nikolay Chuzhikov
Nikolay Fyodorovich Chuzhikov (Николай Фёдорович Чужиков, 1938–2022), Soviet Ukrainian sprint canoeist; Olympic K4 1,000 m gold at Tokyo 1964 in 3:14.67 and 1966 world champion; eliminated at Mexico 1968 by a sabotaged steering cable.
Nikolay Drozdetsky
Nikolay Drozdetsky (Николай Дроздецкий, 1957–1995), Soviet ice hockey right winger for SKA Leningrad and CSKA Moscow; 1984 Olympic champion and tournament top scorer with 10 goals, two-time world champion, 1981 Canada Cup winner.
Nikolay Dubinin
Nikolay Dubinin (Дубинин Николай Петрович) was a Soviet and Russian geneticist, born in 1906, who worked on evolutionary, radiation, and human genetics and founded two institutes.
Nikolay Gorbachov
Nikolay Stepanovich Gorbachov (Николай Степанович Горбачёв), Soviet Belarusian sprint canoeist, 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist in K-2 1000 m with Viktar Kratasiuk; also 1974 K-4 10,000 m world champion; later a coach in Rahachov.
Nikolay Gulyayev
Nikolay Alekseyevich Gulyayev (Николай Алексеевич Гуляев), Soviet speed skater born 1966 in Vologda; 1988 Calgary Olympic 1,000 m champion in 1:13.03 OR, 1987 World and European all-around champion, later Russian federation vice president.
Nikolay Ivanov
Nikolay Petrovich Ivanov (Николай Петрович Иванов, 1949–2012), Soviet rower from Leningrad; 1976 Montreal Olympic coxed fours gold, 1972 coxed pairs fifth; distinct from sprinter, referee, and other namesakes.
Nikolay Khlystov
Nikolay Khlystov (Николай Павлович Хлыстов, 1932–1999), Soviet ice hockey forward; Krylya Sovetov 1950–61, Olympic gold 1956 Cortina, world champion 1954 and 1956, Soviet champion 1957.
Nikolay Kolesnikov
Nikolay Kolesnikov (Николай Колесников) names two Soviet 1976 Montreal Olympians: weightlifter Nikolay Alekseyevich Kolesnikov (born 1952), featherweight Olympic gold, and sprinter Nikolay Vasilyevich Kolesnikov (born 1953), 4x100 m relay bronze.
Nikolay Kolomenkin
Nikolay Kolomenkin (Nikolay Panin, Николай Панин), Russian figure skater and pistol shooter; won special figures gold at London 1908 as Russia's first Olympic champion, later competed in shooting at Stockholm 1912.
Nikolay Kornienko
Nikolay Kornienko is a chemist working on renewable-energy electrocatalysis and semi-artificial photosynthesis, a Full Professor at the University of Bonn since 2023 who won the 2025 EuChemS Lecture Award.
Nikolay Korolkov
Nikolay Korolkov (Николай Павлович Корольков), Soviet show jumping rider, 1946–2024. Won team gold and individual silver at the 1980 Moscow Olympics on Espadron; five-time Soviet champion.
Nikolay Kruglov
Nikolay Kruglov: Nikolay Konstantinovich Kruglov (born 1950), Soviet biathlete with two 1976 Innsbruck Olympic golds, and his son Nikolay Nikolaevich Kruglov (born 1981), 2006 Olympic relay silver medalist and four-time world relay champion.
Nikolay Krylov (mathematician)
Nikolai Vladimirovich Krylov (Николай Владимирович Крылов) is a mathematician at the University of Minnesota known for the Krylov–Safonov estimates and the theory of controlled diffusion processes.
Nikolay Kryukov
Nikolay Kryukov (Николай Вячеславович Крюков), Russian artistic gymnast born 1978 in Voronezh; 1996 Olympic team gold, 1999 world all-around champion, 2000 team bronze; later junior national coach. Not the powerlifter or skier of similar names.
Nikolay Liliev
Nikolay Liliev (Николай Лилиев), born Nikolay Mihaylov Popivanov in 1885, was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet and National Theatre dramaturg, known for Birds in the Night.
Nikolay Melnikov
Nikolay Melnikov (Николай Андреевич Мельников), born 1948 in Moscow, is a Soviet water polo player who won Olympic gold at Munich 1972 and placed eighth at Montreal 1976, with a 1975 world title.
Nikolay Naydenov
Nikolay Naydenov is a Bulgarian politician and lawyer of the Progressive Bulgaria party who became Minister of Justice in May 2026, after serving as Deputy Labour and Social Policy Minister.
Nikolay P. Laverov
Nikolay Pavlovich Laverov (1930–2016) was a Russian geologist who served as vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1988 to 2013 and pioneered uranium geology.
Nikolay Pankin
Nikolay Pankin (Николай Иванович Панкин), Soviet breaststroke swimmer, 1949–2018. 1968 Olympic 100 m breaststroke bronze medalist, four-time world record holder, 1970 and 1974 European champion, later coach of Dmitry Volkov.
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (Николай Павлович Игнатьев)
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (Николай Павлович Игнатьев) was a Russian count and diplomat who negotiated treaties with China and served as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Nikolay Puchkov
Nikolay Puchkov (Николай Георгиевич Пучков, 1930–2005), Soviet ice hockey goaltender and coach; Olympic champion 1956, two-time world champion, nine-time USSR champion with VVS and CSKA, later SKA Leningrad coach.
Nikolay Puzanov
Nikolay Puzanov (Николай Васильевич Пузанов, 1938–2008), Soviet biathlete, 1968 Grenoble Olympic relay gold medalist and four-time World Championship medalist; not the lawyer Nikolay Polozov or other namesakes.
Nikolay Raevsky
Nikolay Raevsky, also known as Nikolay Nikolaevich Raevsky, was a Russian general of cavalry and hero of the 1812 Patriotic War, famed for his defense of the redoubt at Borodino.
Nikolay Samusik
Nikolay Samusik is a computational biologist and business executive who co-founded Parhelia Biosciences in 2019 and has led the Austin, Texas spatial biology automation company as CEO since 2021.
Nikolay Semenov
Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov (Николай Семёнов, 1896–1986) was a Soviet physical chemist who discovered branched chain reactions, founded the Institute of Chemical Physics, and won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov
Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov (1917–1947) was a Russian theoretical physicist who showed that mixing is a sufficient condition for relaxation to equilibrium; his posthumous 1950 book anticipated dynamical chaos.
Nikolay Sidorov
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sidorov (Николай Александрович Сидоров), Soviet sprinter born 1956 in Moscow, 1980 Olympic 4x100 m relay gold medalist, 1982 European relay champion, 1983 world relay bronze medalist, later an armed-forces athletics coach.
Nikolay Skvortsov
Nikolay Valeryevich Skvortsov (Николай Валерьевич Скворцов), Russian butterfly swimmer born 1984 in Obninsk; three-time Olympian (2004-2012), 2007 world bronze medalist, and former short-course world record holder in the 200 m butterfly.