List of people in Nizhny Novgorod
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This is a list of famous people who have lived in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Please add new people and also add the dates they lived in Nizhny Novgorod, if known.
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[edit] They were born in Nizhny Novgorod
- Orthodox Saint Macarius of Unzha, (1349-1444)
- Russian National Hero of 1612 Kuzma Minin (end of 16th century-1616)
- inventor Ivan Kulibin (1735-1818)
- mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856)
- literary critic, revolutionary democrat Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836-1861)
- writer, ethnographer Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov (1818-1883)
- composer, head of The Five Mily Balakirev (1837 1910)
- revolutionary, first translator of Karl Marx Das Kapital book to Russian German Lopatin (1845-1918)
- twice city head, millionaire Dmitriy Sirotkin (1865-1946)
- writer Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
- French general and diplomat Zinoviy Peshkov (1884-1966)
- Bolshevik revolutionary, chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov (1885-1919)
- military pilot Pyotr Nesterov (1887-1914)
- pianist, composer and conductor Issay Dobrowen (1891-1953)
- soviet political, Prime Minister (1955-58), Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin (1895-1975)
- poet, novellist and playwright Anatoly Marienhof (1897-1962)
- biologist Irina Blokhina (1921-1999)
- soviet actor Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926-1992)
- actress, circus performer Margarita Nazarova (1926-2005)
- conductor, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazi (1937)
- supermodel Natalia Vodianova (1982)
