Angela Nikolau (born 24 June 1993) is a Russian rooftopper and Art Creator who gained recognition due to her unusual photographs taken on the roofs of skyscrapers around the world.
[5][6][7][8][9] In 2015, Nikolau was engaged as a witness in an investigation against a rooftopper Vladimir Podrezov and his friends who painted the star of the Stalinist skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment into Ukrainian flag colours.
Together with Ivan Beerkus, they climbed Goldin Finance 117 in Tianjin and the construction crane at the top of the tower.
[16] In 2022, Nikolau and Beerkus scaled the rooftop of the Malaysian skyscraper Merdeka 118 - the second-tallest building in the world.
[28] Angela appeared in the feature-length documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2024 and was acquired by Netflix in the same year.