This category brings together articles about professors whose academic and teaching careers are connected to Nizhny Novgorod and the region. Among them are specialists in physics, medicine, law, pedagogy, and technical sciences working at the region's leading universities: Lobachevsky University, the technical university, the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, the Pedagogical University, and other institutions.
The category reflects the breadth of the Nizhny Novgorod academic tradition: it includes researchers in fundamental disciplines — for example, Alexander Grigoryevich Litvak in physics — as well as specialists in applied fields, including Gustov Alexander Vasilyevich in medicine and Galay Yury Grigoryevich in jurisprudence. The category's materials give a picture of the people who have shaped, and continue to shape, the intellectual life of the Nizhny Novgorod region.