This category brings together articles about men whose lives and work are connected to Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: scholars, politicians, public figures, entrepreneurs, military figures, and representatives of other fields. The region has historically produced a significant circle of figures in science and administration, and the encyclopedia records the biographies both of widely known persons and of those who left their mark at the local level.
Among those described in the greatest detail are Strongin, president of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, physicist Alexander Grigoryevich Litvak, politician Grigory Rapota, and Andronov Alexander Alexandrovich — one of the founders of the university's Faculty of Radiophysics.