Nizhny Novgorod Dobrolyubov State Linguistic University is an institution of higher education in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and it is one of two linguistic universities in Russia.

[1] In 1917 the municipal language courses were established in Nizhny Novgorod.

Based on those courses, the Gorky Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages was founded in 1937.

Initially, the Institute trained teachers of English, German, French, and Spanish for secondary schools and had, respectively, three faculties: English, German, and Romance languages.

In 1964, the Faculty of Translation of Western European languages was established.