Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name
Nicholas
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglicanism, Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the n ...
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Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I , group=pron ( – ) was List of Russian rulers, Emperor of Russia, Congress Poland, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. He was the third son of Paul I of Russia, Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I ...
(1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855
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Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Pola ...
(1868–1918), or Nikolay II, last Emperor of Russia, from 1894 until 1917
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Prince Nikolai of Denmark
Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Count of Monpezat (Nikolai William Alexander Frederik; born 28 August 1999) is a member of the Danish royal family. He is the eldest son of Prince Joachim and his first wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, and ...
(born 1999)
Other people
Nikolai
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Nikolai Aleksandrovich (disambiguation) Nikolai Aleksandrovich or Nikolay Aleksandrovich (Russian: Николай Александрович) is a Russian male given name. It may refer to:
* Nikolai Aleksandrovich Abramov (1984–2011), a Russian football player
* Nikolai Aleksandrovich ...
or Nikolay Aleksandrovich, several people
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Nikolai Antropov (born 1980), Kazakh former ice hockey winger
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; – 24 March 1948) was a Russian Empire, Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialism, Christian existentialist who e ...
(1874-1948), Russian religious and political philosopher
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Nikolai Bogomolov
Nikolai Bogomolov (born May 30, 1991) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for PSK Sakhalin of Asia League Ice Hockey.
Bogomolov his professional debut with HC Vityaz Podolsk of the Kontinental Hockey League
The ...
(born 1991), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
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Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Буха́рин) ( – 15 March 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and economist and prolific author on revolutionary theory. ...
(1888–1938), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
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Nikolai Bulganin
Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Булга́нин; – 24 February 1975) was a Soviet politician who served as Minister of Defense (1953–1955) and Premier of the Soviet Union (1955–1 ...
(1895-1975), Soviet politician and minister of defence
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Nikolai Chernykh
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004Казакова, Р.К. Памяти Николая Степановича Черных'. Труды Государст ...
(1931-2004), Russian astronomer
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Nikolai Dudorov
Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977) was a Soviet politician who served as the minister of internal affairs between 1956 and 1960.
Early life and education
Dudorov was born in a village, Mishnevo, in Vladimir province in 1906. In 1927 he joined the ...
(1906–1977), Soviet politician
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Nikolai Dzhumagaliev
Nikolai Espolovich Dzhumagaliev ( kk, Николай Есполұлы Жұмағалиев, ''Nıkolaı Jumaǵalıev''; Russian language, Russian: Николай Есполович Джумагалиев; born November 15, 1952) is a Soviet seri ...
(born 1952), Soviet serial killer
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Nikolai Goc
Nikolai Goc (born June 17, 1986) is a German professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing with the Bietigheim Steelers in the DEL2. He previously played with Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He participated at th ...
(born 1986), German ice hockey player
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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...
(1809-1852), Russian dramatist and novelist
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Nikolai Fraiture
Nikolai Philippe Fraiture (born November 13, 1978) is an American musician best known as the bassist of the American rock band The Strokes. Since co-founding the band in 1998, he has released six studio albums with them. Among other creative pro ...
(born 1978) American bassist for The Strokes
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Nikolai Khabibulin
Nikolai Alexandrovich Khabibulin (; rus, Николай Александрович Хабибулин, p=xəbʲɪˈbulʲɪn, born January 13, 1973) is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Known by the nickname "The Bulin Wall", h ...
(born 1973), Russian former ice hockey goaltender
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Nikolai Kinski
Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski (born July 30, 1976) is a French-American film actor, who has also done work in television and on stage. He was born in Paris, and grew up in California. Currently residing in Berlin, he has acted primarily in American and ...
(born 1976), film actor
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Nikolai Kotlyar
Nikolai Kotlyar (; 5 May 1935 – 9 October 2003) was a Soviet engineer, maritime specialist and politician who was the last minister of the fishing industry.
Early life and education
Nikolai Kotlyar was born on 5 May 1935. He was a graduate ...
(1935–2003), Soviet engineer, maritime specialist and politician
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Nikolai Kulemin
Nikolay Vladimirovich Kulemin (russian: Николай Владимирович Кулёмин; born 14 July 1986) is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for Salavat Yulaev Ufa of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). ...
(born 1986), Russian ice hockey winger
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Nikolai Lobachevsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky ( rus, Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский, p=nʲikɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ləbɐˈtɕɛfskʲɪj, a=Ru-Nikolai_Ivanovich_Lobachevsky.ogg; – ) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, kn ...
(1792-1856), Russian mathematician and geometer
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Nikolai Lukashenko
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lukashenko ( be, Мікалай Аляксандравіч Лукашэнка, Mikałaj Alaksandravič Łukašenka; russian: Николай Александрович Лукашенко; born 31 August 2004) is the third ...
(born 2004), third son of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus
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Nikolai Medtner
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, ''Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner''; 13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immedi ...
(1880-1951), Russian composer and pianist
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Nikolai Melnikov
Nikolai Andreyevich Melnikov (born January 24, 1948) is a former water polo player for the Soviet Union. He is Jewish, and was born in Moscow, Russia. He won a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
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* Soviet Union men's Olympi ...
(born 1948), Soviet Olympic champion water polo player
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Nikolai Myaskovsky
Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; pl, Mikołaj Miąskowski, syn Jakóbowy; 20 April 18818 August 1950), was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is som ...
(1881-1950), Russian composer
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Nikolai Novosjolov
Nikolai Novosjolov (born 9 June 1980) is an Estonian right-handed épée Fencing, fencer, two-time individual world champion, and four-time Olympic Games, Olympian.
Novosjolov competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the ...
(born 1980), Estonian fencer
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Nikolai Onoprienko
Nikolai Nikolayevich Onoprienko (russian: Николай Николаевич Оноприенко, uk, Микола Миколайович Онопрієнко; 19 December 1911 – 12 November 1979) was a Red Army colonel and World War II Hero o ...
(1911-1979), Soviet Red Army colonel
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Nikolai Pozdneev
Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev (russian: Никола́й Матве́евич Поздне́ев; 28 September 1930 – 10 June 1978) was a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, repr ...
(1930-1978), Russian painter
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Nikolai Przhevalsky
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Prjevalsky;; pl, Nikołaj Przewalski, . – ) was a Russian geographer of Polish descent (he was born in a Polish noble family), and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia.
Although he never reache ...
(1839-1888), Russian geographer and explorer
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...
(1844-1908), Russian composer
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Nikolai Rubinstein
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (russian: Николай Григорьевич Рубинштейн; – ) was a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tc ...
(1835-1881), Russian painter, conductor and composer
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Nikolai Ryzhkov
Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov ( uk, Микола Іванович Рижков; russian: Николай Иванович Рыжков; born 28 September 1929) is a Soviet, and later Russian, politician. He served as the last Chairman of the Counci ...
(born 1929), Russian politician
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Nikolai Shchelokov
Nikolai Anisimovich Shchelokov; uk, Микола Онисимович Щолоков ( – 13 December 1984) was a Soviet statesman and army general who served sixteen years as minister of internal affairs from 17 September 1966 to 17 Decembe ...
(1910–1984), Soviet statesman and army general
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Nikolay Shubin
Nikolay Pavlovich Shubin (russian: Николай Павлович Шубин; born 1956), known as The Cemetery Director, is a Georgian-born Russian serial killer, who killed 13 homeless and single people between 2004 and 2006 in the city of Lipe ...
(born 1956), Georgian-born Russian serial killer
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Nikolai Slichenko
Nikolai Alekseyevich Slichenko (russian: link=no, Никола́й Алексе́евич Сличе́нко; 27 December 1934 — 2 July 2021) was a Soviet and Russian singer, actor and chief director of the Romen Theatre in Moscow. He was the ...
(1934–2021), Soviet and Russian singer, actor, and theatre director
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Nikolai Tanayev
Nikolay Timofeyevich Tanayev (russian: Николай Тимофеевич Танаев; 5 November 1945 – 19 July 2020) was a Kyrgyz politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 2002 to 2005, under President Askar Akayev.
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(1945–2020), Kyrgyz politician
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Nikolai Tcherepnin
Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (Russian: Николай Николаевич Черепнин; – 26 June 1945) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Saint Petersburg and studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at t ...
(1873-1945), Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
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Nikolai Tikhonov (writer)
Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (russian: link=no, Никола́й Семёнович Ти́хонов; – 8 February 1979) was a Soviet writer and member of the Serapion Brothers literary group.
Biography
Born of parents who were petty tradesmen ...
(1896-1979), Soviet writer
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Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov (russian: Николай Александрович Тихонов; ukr, Микола Олександрович Тихонов; – 1 June 1997) was a Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman during the Cold War. H ...
(1905-1997), Russian politician
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Nikolai Timkov
Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (russian: Тимко́в Никола́й Ефи́мович; August 12, 1912 – December 25, 1993) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artis ...
(1912-1993), Russian painter
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Nikolai Topor-Stanley
Nikolai David Topor-Stanley (born 11 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a centre back. He has played for A-League clubs Sydney FC, Perth Glory, Newcastle Jets and Western Sydney Wanderers. He has also played i ...
(born 1985), Australian footballer
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Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev (, rus, Никола́й Серге́евич Валу́ев, p=vɐˈlujɪf; born 21 August 1973) is a Russian politician and former professional boxer. He competed in boxing from 1993 to 2009, and held the WBA heav ...
(born 1973), Russian boxer and world heavyweight champion
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Nikolai Vavilov
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ( rus, Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf, a=Ru-Nikolay_Ivanovich_Vavilov.ogg; – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist a ...
(1887-1943), Russian botanist and geneticist
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Nikolai Volkoff
Josip Hrvoje Peruzović (October 14, 1947 – July 29, 2018), better known by his ring name Nikolai Volkoff, was a Yugoslav-American professional wrestler best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Although Volkoff often p ...
(1947–2018), professional WWF wrestler
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Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov ( rus, Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, p=nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the N ...
(1895–1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge
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Nikolai Zherdev
Mykola Olehovych "Nikolay" Zherdev ( uk, Микола Олегович Жердев; born November 5, 1984) is a Ukrainian-Russian professional ice hockey right winger who is currently playing for the HC Merano of the Alps Hockey League.
He p ...
(born 1984), Russian ice hockey player
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Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko ( rus, Никола́й Влади́мирович Давыде́нко ; born 2 June 1981) is a Ukrainian-born Russian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3 i ...
(born 1981), professional tennis player
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Nikolay Epshtein
Nikolay Semyonovich Epshtein (russian: Николай Семёнович Эпштейн) (27 December 1919 – 27 August 2005) was a Soviet ice hockey coach.
Biography
Epshtein, who was Jewish, was born in Kolomna, Russian FSFR. He coached from 1 ...
(1919–2005), Soviet ice hockey coach
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Nikolay Pechalov (born 1970), Olympic and World champion in weightlifting
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Nikolay Peskov
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Peskov (; born 3 February 1990), also known as Nikolai Choles (Николай Чоулз) is the son of Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.
Biography
Peskov was born 3 February 1990 in Moscow. He is the eldest son of ...
(born 1990), Russian army veteran
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Nikolay Dollezhal
Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal (russian: Николай Антонович Доллежа́ль; – 20 November 2000) was a Russian engineer of Czechs, Czech origin whose career was spent in the former Soviet atomic bomb project, Soviet program ...
(1899-2000), Soviet nuclear reactor designer, head of NIKIET from 1952-1986
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Nikolai, Alaska
Nikolai (Edze Dochak' in Upper Kuskokwim) is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 94 as of the 2010 census, down from 100 in 2000.
Geography
Nikolai is located at (63.010838, -154.383895).
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, a city in the United States
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Nikolai Airport
Nikolai Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) northeast of the central business district of Nikolai, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
As per Federal Aviation Ad ...
, an airport serving Nikolai, Alaska
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Nikolai (vodka) Nikolai is a brand of vodka on the market in the United States. The brand was originally launched and developed by Seagram, and has existed since at least 1963. The Nikolai brand is currently owned and produced by the Sazerac Company
Sazerac Com ...
, a brand of vodka
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* , includes many people with first given name Nikolai
* , includes many people with first given name Nikolay
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Kolja (disambiguation) Kolja or Colja is a short form of the given name Nikolai. It may refer to:
* ''Kolya'' (Czech: ''Kolja''), a 1996 Czech drama film
* Kolja Afriyie (born 1982), German former professional football player
* Kolja Blacher (born 1963), German violin p ...
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''Kolya'' is a Czech film.
Kolya may also refer to:
Places
* Kolya, Iran, a village
* Kolya (crater), on the Moon
* 6619 Kolya, an asteroid
People
* Kolya Vasin (1945–2018), Russian music historian and writer, one of the main populari ...
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Nikola (disambiguation)
Nikola (Cyrillic: Никола) is a given name.
Nikola may also refer to:
Nikola
* Nikola Corporation, a U.S. vehicle company
* ''Nikola & Fattiglapparna'' ("Nikola"), a 2010 album by Nikola Sarcević
* Doctor Nikola, a novel series about an occ ...
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Nicola (disambiguation)
Nicola may refer to:
People
* Nicola (name), including a list of people with the given name or, less commonly, the surname
**Nicola (artist) or Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest
* Nicola people, ...
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Nicolai (disambiguation) Nicolai may refer to:
*Nicolai (given name) people with the forename ''Nicolai''
*Nicolai (surname) people with the surname ''Nicolai''
*Nicolai (crater), a crater on the Moon
See also
* Niccolai, a surname
* Nicolae (disambiguation)
* Nicolao
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Nikolayev (surname) Nikolayev, also spelled Nikolaev (russian: Николаев), or Nikolayeva (feminine; Николаева), is a Russian last name that is derived from the male given name Nikolay and literally means ''Nikolay's''. It may refer to:
* Aleksey Nikol ...
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