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Nikolai
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Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to:
01People
Royalty
- Nicholas I of Russia (1796-1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855
- Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1918), or Nikolay II, last Emperor of Russia, from 1894 until 1917
- Count Nikolai of Monpezat, formerly Prince Nikolai of Denmark (born 1999)
Other people
Nikolai
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich (disambiguation) or Nikolay Aleksandrovich, several people
- Nikolai Antropov (born 1980), Kazakh former ice hockey winger
- Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948), Russian religious and political philosopher
- Nikolai Bogomolov (born 1991), Russian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
- Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1975), Soviet politician and minister of defence
- Nikolai Chernykh (1931-2004), Russian astronomer
- Nikolai Dmitriev (1829-1823), Russian composer
- Nikolai Dmitriev (1898-1954), Soviet linguist
- Nikolai Dudorov (1906-1977), Soviet politician
- Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (born 1952), Soviet serial killer
- Nikolai Goc (born 1986), German ice hockey player
- Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian dramatist and novelist
- Nikolai Fraiture (born 1978) American bassist for The Strokes
- Nikolai Khabibulin (born 1973), Russian former ice hockey goaltender
- Nikolai Kinski (born 1976), film actor
- Nikolai Kotlyar (1935-2003), Soviet engineer, maritime specialist and politician
- Nikolai Kulemin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey winger
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856), Russian mathematician and geometer
- Nikolai Lukashenko (born 2004), third son of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus
- Nikolai Maspanov (born 1945), Estonian politician
- Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951), Russian composer and pianist
- Nikolai Melnikov (born 1948), Soviet Olympic champion water polo player
- Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), Russian composer
- Nikolai Novosjolov (born 1980), Estonian fencer
- Nikolai Onoprienko (1911-1979), Soviet Red Army colonel
- Nikolai Pegov (1905-1991), Soviet official and diplomat
- Nikolai Pozdneev (1930-1978), Russian painter
- Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839-1888), Russian geographer and explorer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), Russian composer
- Nikolai Rubinstein (1835-1881), Russian painter, conductor and composer
- Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929-2024), Russian politician
- Nikolai Shchelokov (1910-1984), Soviet statesman and army general
- Nikolai Sinebrychoff (1789-1848), Russian businessman
- Nikolai Slichenko (1934-2021), Soviet and Russian singer, actor, and theatre director
- Nikolai Tanayev (1945-2020), Kyrgyz politician
- Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945), Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
- Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (1896-1979), Soviet writer
- Nikolai Tikhonov (1905-1997), Russian politician
- Nikolai Timkov (1912-1993), Russian painter
- Nikolai Topor-Stanley (born 1985), Australian footballer
- Nikolai Tirkkonen (1875-1926), Finnish merchant
- Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), Russian boxer and world heavyweight champion
- Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943), Russian botanist and geneticist
- Nikolai Volkoff (1947-2018), professional WWF wrestler
- Nikolai Yezhov (1895-1940), head of NKVD and perpetrator of the Great Purge
- Nikolai Zherdev (born 1984), Russian ice hockey player
Fictional character
- Nikolai "Sledge" Slidjonovitch, a supportive characters of Quake IV video game
- Nikolai Gogol from the manga and anime series Bungou Stray Dogs
Nikolay
- Nikolay Baskov (born 1976), Russian singer
- Nikolay Bobrikov (1839-1904), Russian Governor-General of Finland
- Nikolay Davydenko (born 1981), professional tennis player
- Nikolay Dollezhal (1899-2000), Soviet nuclear reactor designer, head of NIKIET from 1952-1986
- Nikolay Epshtein (1919-2005), Soviet ice hockey coach
- Nikolay Pechalov (born 1970), Olympic and World champion in weightlifting
- Nikolay Peskov (born 1990), Russian army veteran
- Nikolay Rastorguev (born 1957), lead singer of the Russian group Lyube
- Nikolay Shubin (born 1956), Georgian-born Russian serial killer
02Other uses
- Nikolai, Alaska, a city in the United States
- Nikolai Airport, an airport serving Nikolai, Alaska
- Nikolai (vodka), a brand of vodka
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