This category brings together articles about people awarded the title of honorary citizen of Nizhny Novgorod or Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Among them are scientists, engineers, physicians, cultural figures, workers and military men: the circle is so wide that the category reflects the very history of the city and the region through its people. Here you can find material about Alexander Alexandrovich Kasyanov, founder of the Nizhny Novgorod school of composition, about shipbuilder Vasily Kalashnikov, about oncologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Blokhin, and about physicist Andrey Viktorovich Gaponov-Grekhov.