Nikolai Explained
Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to:
People
Royalty
Other people
Nikolai
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich (disambiguation) or Nikolay Aleksandrovich, several people
- Nikolai Antropov (born 1980), Kazakh former ice hockey winger
- Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948), Russian religious and political philosopher
- Nikolai Bogomolov (born 1991), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
- Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), Soviet politician and minister of defence
- Nikolai Chernykh (1931–2004), Russian astronomer
- Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977), Soviet politician
- Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (born 1952), Soviet serial killer
- Nikolai Goc (born 1986), German ice hockey player
- Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Russian dramatist and novelist
- Nikolai Fraiture (born 1978) American bassist for The Strokes
- Nikolai Khabibulin (born 1973), Russian former ice hockey goaltender
- Nikolai Kinski (born 1976), film actor
- Nikolai Kotlyar (1935–2003), Soviet engineer, maritime specialist and politician
- Nikolai Kulemin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey winger
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician and geometer
- Nikolai Lukashenko (born 2004), third son of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus
- Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951), Russian composer and pianist
- Nikolai Melnikov (born 1948), Soviet Olympic champion water polo player
- Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), Russian composer
- Nikolai Novosjolov (born 1980), Estonian fencer
- Nikolai Onoprienko (1911–1979), Soviet Red Army colonel
- Nikolai Pegov (1905–1991), Soviet official and diplomat
- Nikolai Pozdneev (1930–1978), Russian painter
- Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian geographer and explorer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Russian composer
- Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), Russian painter, conductor and composer
- Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024), Russian politician
- Nikolai Shchelokov (1910–1984), Soviet statesman and army general
- Nikolai Slichenko (1934–2021), Soviet and Russian singer, actor, and theatre director
- Nikolai Tanayev (1945–2020), Kyrgyz politician
- Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945), Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
- Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (1896–1979), Soviet writer
- Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), Russian politician
- Nikolai Timkov (1912–1993), Russian painter
- Nikolai Topor-Stanley (born 1985), Australian footballer
- Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), Russian boxer and world heavyweight champion
- Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian botanist and geneticist
- Nikolai Volkoff (1947–2018), professional WWF wrestler
- Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge
- Nikolai Zherdev (born 1984), Russian ice hockey player
Nikolay
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