This category brings together writers, poets, and prose authors whose biography or work is connected to Nizhny Novgorod and its region. Among them are classic authors rooted in the local history and ethnography, as well as contemporary writers working in a wide range of genres. The Nizhny Novgorod land gave Russian literature figures such as Pavel Melnikov-Pechersky, whose novels became a document of the folk life of the Volga region, and Nikolai Ivanovich Kochin, who wrote about the peasant and urban life of the region. Among contemporaries, notable figures include Elena Kryukova — a poet and novelist, and Shamshurin Valeriy Anatolevich, author of the lyrics to the anthem of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.