** Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and saint ( b. 1836 ).

** Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast ( d. 2002 )

** Nikolai Berzarin, Soviet Red Army general ( b. 1904 )

** Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev.

** Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician ( b. 1837 )

** Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.

** Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia ( b. 1856 )

** Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player

** Nikolai Valuev, Russian heavyweight boxing champion

** Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev.

** Le Carnaval ( 1910 )— music by Robert Schumann ( orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, and Alexander Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, set and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** His Highness Prince Nikolai William Alexander Frederik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, born on 28 August 1999.

** Men's all-around champion: Nikolai Andrianov, USSR

** Nikolai Gogol, Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer ( died 1852 )

** Nikolai Volkoff

** Million Dollar Corporation ( Irwin R. Schyster, Nikolai Volkoff, Ted DiBiase's Undertaker, Tatanka, Bam Bam Bigelow, Kama, King Kong Bundy, Sycho Sid, 1-2-3 Kid, Xanta Klaus )

** Cavalry-mechanised group under command of Lieutenant-General Nikolai Oslikovksy, including 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps

** NWA Florida Tag Team Championship ( 5 times ) – with Pat Patterson ( 1 ), Masa Saito ( 3 ), and Nikolai Volkoff ( 1 )

** Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko, September 20, 1991 – November 6, 1991

** Nikolai ( 1873-1873 )

** Nikolai E. Mnev for Mnev's universality theorem, that every semialgebraic set is equivalent to the space of realizations of an oriented matroid.

** " The Adventures of Nikolai Dante " ( with Simon Fraser, in 2000 AD # 1035-1041, 1997 )

** " Bring Me the Head of Nikolai Dante " ( with John Burns, in 2000 AD Prog 2009, 2008 )

** " The Memoirs of Nikolai Dante " ( with Simon Fraser, in 2000 AD # 1731, 2011 )

** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III Russian warship

** Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

** Vladimirskaya ( Russian Orthodox )

** Romanov sainthood ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class

** List of Russian rulers: early Grand Dukes and Tsars

** Alexander Nevsky ( Repose, Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian original was written in 1970, distributed by samizdat, and eventually printed as Восленский М. С., Номенклатура.

** In many languages ( e. g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian ), the sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical.

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

** Romanized Russian: Dogovor o druzhbe, sotrudnichestve i vzaimnoy pomoshchi

** Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler

** Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, Russian astronomer and inventor ( b. 1896 )

** The First Chechen War ( 1994 – 1996 ) – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator

** Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

** Lena Katina, Russian singer