Nikolai Gogol | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Nikolai Yudenich | Nikolai Bulganin | Nikolai Timkov | Nikolai Leskov | Nikolai Rubinstein | Nikolai Bukharin | Nikolai Volkoff | Nikolai Fraiture | Nikolai Rakov | Nikolai Pozdneev | Nikolai Eilertsen | Nikolai Berdyaev | Nikolai Ryzhkov | Nikolai Krylenko | Nikolai Glushkov | Nikolai Erdman | Henrik Nikolai Krøyer | Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I | Nikolai Vavilov | Nikolai Sokoloff | Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov | Nikolai Roslavets | Nikolai Ostrovsky | Nikolai Myaskovsky | Nikolai Medtner | Nikolai Kibalchich | Nikolai Kamov | Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov |
Honorary guests of "Starty nadezhd" finals were many notable Soviet athletes, Olympic champions, including Nikolai Andrianov, Valeriy Borzov, Galina Prozumenshchikova, Pyotr Bolotnikov, Elena Vaytsekhovskaya.