Nikolai Ivanovych Petrov was an Imperial Russian theologist and philologist, long time worked in the Imperial Russian Southwestern Krai, one of founding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Pinegin was a Russian and Soviet writer, artist, Arctic explorer. He was a member of the expedition of G. Y. Sedov on the ship "St. Martyr Foka".
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman and the first People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR.
Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin was a Soviet playwright. His plays were recognized in Soviet Union theater for their realistic portrayals of common life combined with socialist and communist themes. He is most widely known as the author of a trilogy about Lenin, the first time Lenin was used as a character in any theatrical works.
Nikolai Alekseevich Polevoy was a controversial Russian editor, writer, translator, and historian; his brother was the critic and journalist Ksenofont Polevoy and his sister the writer and publisher of folktales Ekaterina Avdeeva.