This category brings together articles about people considered heroes in Nizhny Novgorod and the region — in the official, popular, or historical sense. Among them are scientists, military figures, revolutionaries, and test pilots whose lives are connected to the region in one way or another.
A special place is held by Negin Yevgeny Arkadyevich) — a nuclear physicist and Hero of Socialist Labour who worked in the closed city of Arzamas-16, and Roman Taskaev — a test pilot, Hero of Russia, and commander of the crew of the first production import-substituted MC-21-310. The category also features Hero Usilov, honored by popular recognition, and Genkina Olga Mikhailovna) — a revolutionary connected to Nizhny Novgorod who died in 1905.