Nikolai Petrovich Devitte was a Russian harpist, composer, poet and songwriter, best remembered for his song "Ne dlya menya", which has been performed by, among many others, Fyodor Chalyapin.
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Yakovlev (1898–1972) was a Soviet Marshal of the artillery.
During the 1937 - 1941 period, he was artillery chief of the Belorussian, North Caucasus and Kiev Military Districts. From 1941 to 1948, he was head of the Main Artillery Directorate (GAU) and member of the Military Council of the Red Army's artillery force. In this position, he carried out a great amount of work to provide the combat army with arms and munitions. New types of artillery weapons and munitions were developed and introduced in the army under his guidance. He was later imprisoned from 1952 to 1953, and retired in 1960.
Nikolai Ivanovich Dubov (1910–1983) was a Soviet Russian children's writer. He was born in Omsk and moved permanently to Kyiv in 1944 where he spent the rest of his life. He was one of several Russian-speaking writers there who were occasionally referred to as the "Kiev School". Others in the group included V.P. Nekrasov, L.N. Volynsky, and M.N. Parkhomov. Dubov gained enormous popularity through his children's stories, the most successful of which were turned into popular films, notably Огни на реке and Какое оно, море?. They were also translated for international distribution.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Engelhardt was a Russian writer, critic, poet, journalist, memoirist and literary historian, co-founder and one of the original leaders of the Russian Assembly. The writer and agricultural scientist Alexander Engelgardt was his father.
Nikolai Robertovich Erdman was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. His plays, notably The Suicide (1928), form a link in Russian literary history between the satirical drama of Nikolai Gogol and the post-World War II Theatre of the Absurd.
