Top Celebrity Names Starting With Nikolai

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   Nikolai Khabibulin

   Age 39 Male
   

   Ice Hockey Player

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   Nikolai Ivanovich Khabibulin is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League. He is often known by his nickname The Bulin Wall He has previously played for the Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Tampa Bay Lightning and Chicago Blackhawks. Khabibulin's abilities have been recognized with two Olympic medals, and as Best Goaltender at the 2002 Winter Olympics.… read more

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   Nikolai Valuev

   Age 38 Male
   

   Boxer

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   Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev is a retired professional boxer and former two-time WBA heavyweight champion. In his most recent fight (on 7 November 2009), he lost the title to David Haye via 12-round majority decision. Three days after the fight, Valuev announced his retirement.… read more

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   Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

   1844 - 1908 Male
   

   Composer, Member of the Group "the Five"

   
   

   Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects.… read more

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   Nikolai Ryzhkov

   Age 82 Male
   

   Politician, President, Minister

   
   

   Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov is a former Soviet official who became a Russian politician following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He served as the last Chairman of the Council of Ministers or Premier of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Responsible for the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late Gorbachev Era, Ryzhkov was succeeded as premier by Valentin Pavlov in 1991.… read more

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   Nikolai Leskov

   1831 - 1895 Male
   

   Writer

   
   

   Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and journalist who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms.… read more

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   Nikolai Kamanin

   1908 - 1982 Male
   

   Aviator, Colonel, General

   
   

   Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin was a Soviet aviator, awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi Sea near Kolyuchin Island. In World War II he successfully commanded air brigade, air division and an air corps, reaching the rank of Airforce Colonel General and Air Army commander role after the war.… read more

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   Nikolai Timkov

   1912 - 1993 Male
   

   Painter, Congressman

   
   

   Nikolai Efimovich Timkov - Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, worldwide known for his landscape paintings.… read more

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   Nikolai Tolstoy

   Age 76 Male
   

   Historian, Politician, Campaigner

   
   

   Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky is an Anglo-Russian historian and author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the prominent Tolstoy family, he is of part Russian descent and is the stepson of the author Patrick O'Brian. He is also a former parliamentary candidate of the United Kingdom Independence Party.… read more

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   Nikolai Gogol

   1809 - 1852 Male
   

   Writer

   
   

   Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore.… read more

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    Nikolai Bukharin

    1888 - 1938 Male
    

    Politician, President, Communist

    
    

    Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, was a Russian Marxist, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. He was a member of the Politburo (1924–1929) and Central Committee (1917–1937), chairman of the Communist International (Comintern, 1926–1929), and the editor in chief of Pravda (1918–1929), the journal Bolshevik (1924–1929), Izvestia (1934–1936), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. He authored Imperialism and World Economy (1918), The ABC of Communism (1919.… read more

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    Nikolai Roslavets

    1881 - 1944 Male
    

    Soviet Modernist Composer

    
    

    Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets was a significant Soviet modernist composer. Roslavets was a convinced modernist and cosmopolitan thinker; his music was officially suppressed from 1930 onwards. Among his works are five symphonic poems, two violin concertos, five string quartets, two viola sonatas, two cello sonatas, six violin sonatas, and five piano trios.… read more

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    Nikolai Medtner

    1880 - 1951 Male
    

    Composer, Pianist, Musician

    
    

    Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist. A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano. His works include fourteen piano sonatas, three violin sonatas, three piano concerti, a piano quintet, three works for two pianos, many shorter piano pieces, and 108 songs including two substantial works for vocalise.… read more

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    Nikolai Krylenko

    1885 - 1938 Male
    

    Politician, Lawyer, Commissar

    
    

    Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Krylenko served in a variety of posts in the Soviet legal system, rising to become People's Commissar for Justice and Prosecutor General of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Krylenko was an exponent of socialist legality and the theory that political considerations, rather than criminal guilt or innocence, should guide the application of punishment.… read more

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    Nikolai Podgorny

    1903 - 1983 Male
    

    Politician, Civil Servant, Statesman

    
    

    Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, or leader of the Ukrainian SSR, from 1957 to 1963 and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1965 to 1977. He was replaced as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1977 by General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.… read more

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    Nikolai Yezhov

    1895 - 1940 Male
    

    Soviet Politician

    
    

    Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov or Ezhov was the senior figure in the NKVD under Joseph Stalin during the period of the Great Purge. His reign is sometimes known as the "Yezhovshchina", "the Yezhov era", a term that began to be used during the de-Stalinization campaign of the 1950s. During the beginning of World War II his status within the USSR became that of a political unperson.… read more

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    Nikolai Noskov

    Age 56 Male
    

    Singer, Musician

    
    

    Nikolai Ivanovich Noskov is a Russian singer and former vocalist of the hard rock band Gorky Park.

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    Nikolai Pozdneev

    1930 - 1978 Male
    

    Painter, Congressman

    
    

    Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev - Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and still life paintings.… read more

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    Nikolai Kulikovsky

    1881 - 1958 Male
    

    Second Husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia

    
    

    Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III. He was born into a military landowning family from the south of the Russian Empire, and followed the family tradition by entering the army. In 1903, he was noticed by Grand Duchess Olga during a military review, and they became close friends.… read more

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    Nikolai Girenko

    1940 - 2004 Male
    

    Politician, Ethnologist, Militant

    
    

    Nikolai Mikhailovich Girenko was an ethnologist and human rights activist.

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    Nikolai Tikhonov

    1905 - 1997 Male
    

    Politician, Metallurgist, Statesman

    
    

    Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1980 to 1985, and as a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally First Vice Premier, from 1976 to 1980. Tikhonov was responsible for the cultural and economic administration of the Soviet Union during the late era of stagnation. He was replaced as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1985 by Nikolai Ryzhkov.… read more

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    Nikolai Myaskovsky

    1881 - 1950 Male
    

    Composer, Musician

    
    

    Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".