This category brings together articles about musicians whose biography or work is connected to Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Among them are Izrail Gusman, People's Artist of Russia and honorary citizen of the oblast, who devoted decades to the musical life of Nizhny Novgorod, and Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich, whose name is inseparably linked to the region. Also represented here are performers of other genres, including Alexei "Polkovnik" ("the Colonel") Khrynov.