Nikolayev (surname)

• Aleksey Nikolayev
• Alene Nikolayev, Bulgarian civic society leader
• Alexander Fedorovich Nikolayev, Soviet Air Force officer, test pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexander Nikolayev, Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut
• Igor Nikolayev, Russian pop singer and composer
• Konstantin Nikolaev, Russian billionaire, Russian investor in American Ethane & financial supporter of Maria Butina
• Leonid Nikolaev, Russian communist, the assassin of Sergei Kirov
• Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, Russian pianist, composer, and pedagogue
• Mikhail Nikolayev, Russian politician and deputy of the State Duma
• Mikhail Arkhipovich Nikolayev, Soviet sergeant and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union
• Mikhail Vasilyevich Nikolayev, Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Nikita Nikolayev, Russian association football player
• Olga Nikolaeva, Russian volleyball player
• Sergei Nikolayev
• Tatiana Nikolayeva, Russian pianist
• Vladimir Nikolayev, several people
• Yelena Nikolayeva, several people
• Yevgeni Nikolayev, Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union