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Nikolay Snopkov
Nikolay Snopkov is a Belarusian politician who serves as First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus, the government's leading figure on economic policy and relations with China.
Nikolay Sobolev
Nikolay Vladimirovich Sobolev (Соболев Николай Владимирович; 1935–2022) was a Soviet and Russian mineralogist and petrologist in Novosibirsk known for work on diamonds, kimberlites, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism.
Nikolay Solodukhin
Nikolay Ivanovich Solodukhin (Николай Иванович Солодухин), Soviet judoka born 1955 in Paserkovo, Kursk Oblast; 1980 Moscow Olympic half-lightweight (65 kg) champion, world champion 1979 and 1983, European champion 1979, later a Kursk police colonel.
Nikolay Sologubov
Nikolay Sologubov (Николай Михайлович Сологубов, 1924–1988), Soviet ice hockey defenseman, CSKA Moskva 1949–64, nine Soviet titles, captain of the USSR national team 1957–61, Olympic gold 1956 and bronze 1960, IIHF Hall of Fame 2004.
Nikolay Solovyov
Nikolay Solovyov (Николай Николаевич Соловьёв, 1931-2007), Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler, won flyweight gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics by pinning Ignazio Fabra despite a loss to Eğribaş; later a national-team coach and referee.
Nikolay Storonsky
Nikolay Storonsky, also known as Nik Storonsky, is a British fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Revolut in 2015 and leads it as chief executive, after a career trading derivatives at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse.
Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky
Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900–1981) was a Soviet geneticist who worked in Berlin-Buch for twenty years, established the quantitative laws of radiation mutagenesis, and founded Soviet radiobiology.
Nikolay Tishchenko
Nikolay Tishchenko (Николай Иванович Тищенко, 1926–1981) was a Soviet footballer, a right-sided defender for Spartak Moscow and a gold medalist at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
Nikolay Tomin
Nikolay Tomin (Николай Николаевич Томин, born 1948, Zaporizhzhia) is a Soviet-Ukrainian handball goalkeeper, CSKA Moskva player, Olympic gold medalist 1976 and silver medalist 1980 with the USSR, playing all six matches at both Games.
Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Nikolay V. Dokholyan is an American computational biologist and protein engineer who held a professorship at Penn State College of Medicine, known for discrete molecular dynamics and protein logic gates.
Nikolay V. Vitanov
Nikolay V. Vitanov is a Bulgarian theoretical physicist and full professor of theoretical physics at Sofia University, known for composite pulses and composite STIRAP, robust techniques for high-fidelity quantum control.
Nikolay Zenkin
Nikolay Zenkin is a Russian-born RNA biologist and Professor of Molecular Biology at Newcastle University since 2013, known for transcript-assisted proofreading and the 2024 Nature finding that translation destroys stalled transcription complexes.
Nikolay Zheludev
Nikolay I. Zheludev, born 1955, is a physicist known as a founding member of nanophotonics and metamaterials, deputy director at Southampton's Zepler Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Nikolay Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский) (scientist)
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, 1847–1921) was a Russian mathematician and engineer called the father of Russian aviation; his 1906 lift theorem underlies wing theory.
Nikolay Zimyatov
Nikolay Zimyatov (Николай Зимятов), Soviet cross-country skier born 1955: four Olympic golds, three at Lake Placid 1980 (30 km, 50 km, relay) and the 30 km defended at Sarajevo 1984, plus 1978 Worlds 30 km silver.
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (Николаевск-на-Амуре)
Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (Николаевск-на-Амуре), also Nikolaevsk, is a port town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, on the left bank of the Amur near its mouth; founded 1850 by Nevelskoy, population about 17,500 (2025).
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones (born 1976, Waterloo, Iowa) is an American investigative journalist at The New York Times Magazine, creator of the 1619 Project, Pulitzer and MacArthur winner, and Howard University Knight Chair.
Nikolina Shtereva
Nikolina Shtereva (Николина Павлова Щерева), Bulgarian middle-distance runner born 1955 in Sofia; 800 m silver at Montreal 1976 in 1:55.42, still the Bulgarian record; two European indoor titles.
Nikoloz Baratashvili
Nikoloz Baratashvili (ნიკოლოზ ბარათაშვილი), born in Tbilisi in 1817, was a Georgian Romantic poet considered a founder of modern Georgian literature; he died in Ganja in 1845.
Nikoloz Basilashvili (ნიკოლოზ ბასილაშვილი)
Nikoloz Basilashvili (ნიკოლოზ ბასილაშვილი), Georgian tennis player from Tbilisi; first Georgian ATP title winner (Hamburg 2018), five ATP titles, career-high No. 16 in 2019, Indian Wells 2021 finalist.
Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
Nikoloz (Niko) Ivanovich Muskhelishvili (1891–1976) was a Georgian mathematician who built the theory of singular integral equations and complex-potential methods for plane elasticity, a turning point in elasticity theory.
Nikolske Raion
Nikolske Raion (Нікольський район), formerly Volodarske Raion, was a district of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Nikolske settlement; renamed 2016, abolished 17 July 2020, merged into Mariupol Raion.
Nikon (株式会社ニコン)
Nikon Corporation, formerly Nippon Kogaku, is a Japanese manufacturer of optical and precision instruments founded in Tokyo in 1917, known for cameras, NIKKOR lenses, and semiconductor lithography systems.
Nikon Chronicle
The Nikon Chronicle (Никоновская летопись) is the largest sixteenth-century Russian chronicle, compiled at the Moscow metropolitan see around 1526 to 1530 and named for Patriarch Nikon's copy.
Nikon Chronicle and Illustrated Chronicle Codex
The Nikon Chronicle (Никоновская летопись) is a grand official Russian chronicle compiled at the Moscow metropolitan see in the late 1520s, expanded into the illustrated codex of Ivan IV.
Nikon Coolpix
Nikon Coolpix is a series of compact digital cameras made by Nikon, launched in 1997 with the COOLPIX 100 and known for superzoom bridge cameras with extremely long fixed zoom lenses.
Nikon Coolpix P1100
The Nikon Coolpix P1100 is a bridge superzoom digital camera released by Nikon in February 2025 for $1,099.95, succeeding the Coolpix P1000 with a 125x zoom.
Nikon D90
The Nikon D90 is a 12.3-megapixel DX-format digital SLR announced by Nikon in 2008, billed as the first digital SLR with a movie mode, recording 720p video.
Nikon F
The Nikon F is a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera introduced by Nikon in 1959, whose bayonet F-mount remains in use on digital SLRs today; more than 800,000 were made.
Nikon F-mount
The Nikon F-mount is the bayonet lens mount Nikon introduced in 1959 on its Nikon F, its first SLR, and has kept unchanged ever since.