Nikolay Nikolsky

Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky (19 May 1878 – 2 November 1961) was a Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, lexicographer of half-Russian (mother) half- Chuvash (father) ethnicity.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky was born in a village of Yurmekeykino, Yadrinsk uyezd (today Morgaushsky District of Chuvash Republic) in the family of surveyor.

By the referral of the Kazan Academy the ober-procuror of Holy Synod appointed Nikolsky as the instructor at the Theological Seminary in Irkutsk.

In 1915 he was accepted as private docent at the Kazan University and was allowed to read lectures as part of the "History course of Christian Enlightenment".

In 1947 by the order of the Ministry of the Higher Education of the Soviet Union he was awarded the science degree of doctor of history.