Nikolai Nikolaevich Rovinsky (1887–1953) was a Russian economist and financial scientist, the first rector (director) of the Moscow Institute of Finance, PhD in economics, professor.

After losing his father early in his childhood, he studied at the Smolensk men's classical gymnasium and from the fifth grade he kept himself on his own, earning money by lessons.

After graduating from the gymnasium with honors, Nikolai entered the Economic Department at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

[2] In 1929, Rovinsky was invited to Moscow to work as an Adviser to the Council of People's Commissars on financial and economic issues.

At the same time, he continued his research in finance and economics, working as part-time Director of the Scientific and Research Financial Institute of the People's Commissariat of Finance of the USSR (until 1941).