List of people from Nizhny Novgorod

This is a list of notable people who have lived in Nizhny Novgorod (1932–1990: Gorky), Russia.

Ivan Kulibin
(1735–1818)

Nikolai Lobachevsky
(1792–1856)

Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky
(1838–1898)

Vladimir Steklov
(1864–1926)

Maxim Gorky
(1868–1936)

Zinovy Peshkov
(1884–1966)

Pyotr Nesterov
(1887–1914)

Nikolai Bulganin
(1895–1975)

Tatyana Averina
(1950–2001)

Svetlana Ganina
(born 1978)

Natalya Bochkareva
(born 1980)

Dmitry Aydov
(born 1982)

Natalia Vodianova
(born 1982)

Ekaterina Vilkova
(born 1984)

Nikolai Zhilyayev
(born 1987)

Coat of Arms of Nizhniy Novgorod

Born in Nizhny Novgorod

1301–1800

Macarius of Unzha (1349–1444), Russian Orthodox saint
Dmitry Pozharsky (1577–1642), Rurikid prince, led Russian forces against Polish invaders in 1611–1612 towards the end of the Time of Troubles
Kuzma Minin (end of 16th century–1616), Russian National Hero of 1612
Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818), mechanic and inventor
Sergei Trubetskoy (1790–1860), one of the organizers of the Decembrist movement
Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856), mathematician and geometer

1801–1850

Nikolai Martynov (1815–1875), army officer who fatally shot the poet Mikhail Lermontov in a duel on 27 July 1841
Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883), writer, ethnographer
Vasily Vasilyev (1818–1900), sinologist of the Victorian era
Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836–1861), literary critic, journalist, poet and revolutionary democrat
Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921), writer, playwright, and journalist
Mily Balakirev (1837–1910), composer, head of The Five
Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky (1838–1898), painter
German Lopatin (1845–1918), revolutionary, journalist and writer
Raphael von Koeber (1848–1923), German-Russian teacher of philosophy at the Tokyo Imperial University in Japan

1851–1900

Mikhail Matyushin (1861–1934), painter and composer
Constantin Kousnetzoff (1863–1936), painter
Vladimir Steklov (1864–1926), mathematician, mechanician and physicist
Anna Ulyanova (1864–1935), revolutionary and Soviet stateswoman
Zdzisław Lubomirski (1865–1943), Polish aristocrat, landowner, lawyer, conservative politician and social activist
Dmitriy Sirotkin (1865–1946), twice city head, millionaire
Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866–1887), revolutionary and older brother of Vladimir Lenin
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868–1936), writer and political activist
Ivan Bubnov (1872–1919), marine engineer and designer of submarines for the Imperial Russian Navy
Dmitry Nadyozhny (1873–1945), commander in the Russian Imperial Army who later joined the Red Army
Alexander Samoylovich (1880–1938), Orientalist-Turkologist
Leonid Vesnin (1880–1933), leading light of Constructivist architecture
Mikhail Tetyaev (1882–1956), tectonic geologist
Alexander Krein (1883–1951), composer
Zinovy Peshkov (1884–1966), Russian-born French general and diplomat
Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919), Bolshevik party leader and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
Pyotr Nesterov (1887–1914), military pilot, aircraft technical designer and aerobatics pioneer
Issay Dobrowen (1891–1953), Russian-Norwegian pianist, composer and conductor
Nikolay Kolosovsky (1891–1954), economic geographer, economist
Léon Zack (1892–1980), painter and sculptor
Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), soviet political, Prime Minister (1955–1958), Marshal of the Soviet Union
Catherine Doherty (1896–1985), Russian Canadian Roman Catholic social worker
Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962), poet, novelist and playwright
Aleksandr Formozov (1899–1973), biologist and environmentalist

1901–1930

Sergey Lebedev (1902–1974), scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, and designer of the first Soviet computers
Vladimir Varankin (1902–1938), writer of literature in Esperanto, instructor of western European history
Andrei Fajt (1903–1976), film actor
Grigory Ginzburg (1904–1961), pianist, Moscow Conservatory professor
Alexander Golovanov (1904–1975), pilot, Marshal of Aviation
Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909–1992), theoretical physicist, mathematician
Boris Mokrousov (1909–1968), composer
David Ashkenazi (1915–1997), pianist, accompanist and composer
Nikolai Khokhlov (1922–2007), KGB officer who defected to the United States in 1953
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), soviet actor
Margarita Nazarova (1926–2005), actress, circus performer
Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), physician

1931–1950

Igor Maslennikov (1931), film director
Valentin Morkovkin (1933–1999), rower
Konstantin Kharchev (1934), politician, diplomat and ambassador
Leonid Volkov (1934), ice hockey player
Igor Zhukov (1936), pianist, conductor and sound engineer
Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Russian-born pianist and conductor of Icelandic and Swiss citizenship
Yuri Golov (1937–2014), Russian footballer
German Sveshnikov (1937–2003), Soviet fencer
Viktor Konovalenko (1938–1996), ice hockey goaltender
Sergei Novikov (1938), mathematician
Mikhail Rabinovich (1941), influential physicist
Pavel Lednyov (1943–2010), modern pentathlete and Olympic champion
Valeri Zykov (1944), football player
Vladimir Denisov (1947), fencer
Gariy Napalkov (1948), ski jumper
Tatyana Averina (1950–2001), speed skater

1951–1970

Sergey Mitin (1951), Governor of Novgorod Oblast since 2007
Vladimir Kovin (1954), ice hockey player
Alexander Skvortsov (1954), ice hockey player
Galina Kakovkina (1957), painter
Serhii Plokhii (1957), professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University
Mikhail Varnakov (1957), ice hockey player
Gennadi Maslyayev (1958), professional football coach and player
Sergey Ryabtsev (1958), plays violin and provides backing vocals for the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello
Tatyana Shvyganova (1960), field hockey player and Olympic medalist
Evgeny Sheyko (1962), conductor
Yevgeny Erastov (1963), writer
Valery Rozov (1964), BASE jumper
Ilya Segalovich (1964–2013), co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex
Andrey Sigle (1964), film producer, film music composer and musician
Maya Usova (1964), ice dancer
Natalia Pankova (1965), artist, art manager
Dimitri Konyshev (1966), former road bicycle racer
Alexander Baburin (1967), Russian-Irish Grandmaster of chess
Tahir Taghizadeh (1967), Azerbaijani diplomat
Igor Egorov (1968), football referee and former player
Dmitri Cheryshev (1969), footballer
Alexei Ivanov (1969), writer
Vladimir Kurayev (1969), professional footballer
Sergei Sorokin (1969), ice hockey player
Valeri Popovitch (1970), football striker
Alyaksandr Taykow (1970), footballer

1971–1980

Vladislav Leontyev (1971), crime figure
Dmitry Mazunov (1971), table tennis player
Natalya Sadova (1972), discus thrower
Aleksei Gerasimov (1973), professional footballer
Andrej Krementschouk (1973), photographer
Albert Oskolkov (1973), professional footballer
Ilya V. Osipov (1975), entrepreneur, puzzle designer
Alexander Guskov (1976), professional ice hockey defenceman
Sergei Nakariakov (1977), virtuoso trumpeter
Svetlana Ganina (1978), table tennis player
Evgeny Aleshin (1979), swimmer
Pyotr Bystrov (1979), association footballer
Artem Chubarov (1979), professional ice hockey player
Natalya Bochkareva (1980), stage and film actress, television presenter
Irina Kotikhina (1980), professional table tennis player

1981–1990

Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. (1981), biathlete
Dmitry Aydov (1982), professional association football player
Vladimir Gusev (1982), professional road racing cyclist
Yekaterina Kondratyeva (1982), sprinter
Natalia Vodianova (1982), supermodel, philanthropist and occasional film actress
Ilya Korotkov (1983), javelin thrower
Sergey Shiryayev (1983), cross country skier
Ivan Usenko (1983), Belarusian ice hockey defenceman
Mikhail Tyulyapkin (1984), professional ice hockey defenceman
Ekaterina Vilkova (1984), actress of film, theater and television
Dmitri Kosmachev (1985), professional ice hockey player
Mikhail Varnakov (1985), professional ice hockey player
Maria Borodakova (1986), volleyball player
Denis Kornilov (1986), ski jumper
Denis Kozhukhin (1986), pianist, winner of the Vendome Prize in Lisbon in 2009
Svetlana Mironova (1986), orienteering competitor
Vera Ulyakina (1986), volleyball player
Anne Vyalitsyna (1986), supermodel
Artem Lobov (1986), UFC Fighter
Igor Levit (1987), Russian-German pianist
Ilya Maksimov (1987), football midfielder
Ruslan Zakharov (1987), short-track speed-skater
Nikolai Zhilyayev (1987), footballer
Vladimir Galuzin (1988), professional ice hockey player
Valeri Zhukov (1988), professional ice hockey player
Denis Cheryshev (1990), footballer, Real Madrid forward
Pavel Karelin (1990–2011), ski jumper

1991–2000

Dmitriy Kokarev (1991), swimmer
Alexander Sharychenkov (1991), professional ice hockey goaltender
Daniil Trifonov (1991), concert pianist and composer
Dmitri Karasyov (1992), professional football player
Ekaterina Pushkash (1992), ice dancer
Mikhail Maksimochkin (1993), ski jumper

Lived in Nizhny Novgorod

Alexander Dubček (1921–1992), Czechoslovak politician, in Nizhny Novgorod 1933–1938
Nikolay Kruglov (born 1950), biathlete
Nina Makarova (1908–1976), composer
Anatoly Moskvin (1968), academic and linguist; arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home
Andrei Rumyantsev (born 1969), professional footballer
Aleksandr Shchukin (1969–2000), professional footballer (1987–1993: FC Lokomotiv Gorky)
Igor Shelushkov (born 1946), mental calculator; postgraduate at Gorki Polytechnic Institute (now Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University)

Exiles to Nizhny Novgorod

As a closed city that was inaccessible to foreign observers, this was a city for internal exiles.

Andrei Sakharov (1980–1989), eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner