Nikolai Lopatnikoff was a Russian-American composer, music teacher and university lecturer. He composed some works of neoclassical music. These pieces featured fast, furious Allegro molto that included in some cases snare drumming and also soft cello music. These style alternate fast and furious with quiet and solemn, legato strings giving way to a quiet passage that ends with a loud drum.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Lukin was a Soviet Marxist historian and publicist. He was a leader among Soviet historians in the 1930s, after the death of Mikhail Pokrovsky.
Nikolai Grigorevich Lyashchenko was a Soviet Army general. He fought on the Republican side in Spain and against Nazi Germany. He was a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was a recipient of the Order of Zhukov, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov, the Order of the Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star, and the Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR.
Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking on his "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language, now considered as pseudo-scientific, and related speculative linguistic hypotheses.
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. After a period of comparative obscurity in the 25 years immediately after his death, he is now becoming recognized as one of the most significant Russian composers for the piano.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Melgunov was a Russian writer, publicist, translator from German and French, and music critic, described as one of the most prolific and diverse authors of his time.
Nikolai Nikolayevich Mesyatsev was a Soviet politician and statesman, chairman of the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Soviet Union from 1964-1970. From 1970-1972, he served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union to Australia. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1941-1972 and 1984-1991. Being member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was a candidate (alternate) member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1966-1971 as well as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1970.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karinsky was a Russian linguist, dialectologist, Slavist, correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1921, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1925.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Strakhov was a Soviet geologist who specialized in lithology and lithogenesis of ocean sediment. His book Principles of Lithogenesis was a landmark text. He also founded the journal Lithology and Mineral Resources.
Nikolai Minsky and Nikolai Maksimovich Minsky are pseudonyms of Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin, a mystical writer and poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
