Nikolay Vladimirovich Storozhenko was a Russian / Ukrainian nationalist, social and political activist, historian and an educator. He was a member of the Kiev Club of Russian Nationalists (1908-1918). After Revolution he emigrated to Yugoslavia and then to France. He is known as an author of many works on the Cossack history of Ukraine and Russia.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Ustryalov was a Russian politician and a leading pioneer of National Bolshevism. His great-uncle was Nikolay Gerasimovich Ustryalov.

Nikolay Andreevich Veryovkin-Rakhalsky (1893–1984) was a Soviet general. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war. He was promoted to Komkor in 1939. He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Kutuzov, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He retired in 1958 at the age of 65.

Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky was a Russian archaeologist and orientalist.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Voronov was a Soviet military leader, chief marshal of the artillery (1944), and Hero of the Soviet Union. He was commander of artillery forces of the Red Army from 1941 until 1950. Voronov commanded the Soviet artillery during the Battle of Stalingrad and was the Stavka representative to various fronts during the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Kursk. He also fought in the Russian Civil War, the Polish-Soviet War and the Battle of Khalkin Gol, as well as serving as an advisor to the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War.

Nikolay Vorontsov is a Russian artist and illustrator who lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Nikolay Mikhailovich Yazykov was a Russian poet and Slavophile who in the 1820s rivalled Alexander Pushkin and Yevgeny Baratynsky as the most popular poet of his generation.

Nikolay Ivanovich Yefimov was a Russian journalist and statesman. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served as Chairman of the USSR State Press Committee from 1989 to 1990.

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He was a Modernist and one of the founders of the Russian avant-garde absurdist group Oberiu.

Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, and a founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human flight, Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow. He is often called the Father of Russian Aviation.