List of people in Nizhny Novgorod

List of people in Nizhny Novgorod

This is a list of famous people who have lived in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in Nizhny Novgorod, if known.

They were born in Nizhny Novgorod

* Orthodox Saint Macarius of Unzha, (1349-1444)
* Russian National Hero of 1612 Kuzma Minin (end of 16th century-1616)
* inventor Ivan Kulibin (1735-1818)
* mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856)
* literary critic, revolutionary democrat Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836-1861)
* writer, ethnographer Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov (1818-1883)
* composer, head of The Five Mily Balakirev (1837 1910)
* revolutionary, first translator of Karl Marx Das Kapital book to Russian German Lopatin (1845-1918)
* twice city head, millionaire Dmitriy Sirotkin (1865-1946)
* writer Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
* French general and diplomat Zinoviy Peshkov (1884-1966)
* Bolshevik revolutionary, chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov (1885-1919)
* military pilot Pyotr Nesterov (1887-1914)
* pianist, composer and conductor Issay Dobrowen (1891-1953)
* soviet political, Prime Minister (1955-58), Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1975)
* poet, novellist and playwright Anatoly Marienhof (1897-1962)
* biologist Irina Blokhina (1921-1999)
* soviet actor Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926-1992)
* actress, circus performer Margarita Nazarova (1926-2005)
* conductor, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazi (1937)
* discus thrower Natalya Sadova (1972)
* supermodel Natalia Vodianova (1982)
* supermodel Anne Vyalitsyna (1986)


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