10 Famous People From Nizhniy Novgorod That You Don't Know!

i find this kinda interesting....makes me have this NIZHNY NOVGOROD PATRIOTISM!!!

1. Natalia Vodianova(Supermodel)
According to Forbes, Vodianova isranked as the seventh highest-earningsupermodel in the world after CarolynMurphy, Alessandra Ambrosio, AdrianaLima, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss and GiseleBündchen. Her earnings for the pastyear were in the order of $4.5 million.

2. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Mathgenius)
The non-Euclidean geometry thatLobachevsky developed was called hyperbolic geometry. Lobachevsky replaced Euclid's parallel postulate with the postulate that there is more than one parallel line through any given point; a famous consequence isthat the sum of angles in a trianglemust be less than 180 degrees.

3. Pyotr Nesterov (Aerobatics)
Nesterov believed that an aircraft could fly a loop, a feat not previously performed. Despite the doubts of his peers, Nesterov proved his theory on 9 September 1913 (27 August by the calendar then used in Russia) and became the first pilot to fly a loop.

4. Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov(Revolutionist)
He played an important role in planning the October Revolution.Research in 1990 by the Moscow playwright and historian Edvard Radzinsky uncovered Sverdlov's role in the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Sverdlov ordered their execution on July 16, 1918.

5. Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy(Pianist)
Ashkenazy began playing at the age of six and, showing prodigious talent,was accepted at the Central Music School at eight. Today he is the next chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony. He won 3 Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Performance and 2 Grammy Awards for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance!

6. Venerable Macarius of the YellowWater Lake and the Unzha, the MiracleWorker (Saint of the Russian OrthdoxChurch)
He wanted to live in the wilderness as a hermit. He travelled down the Volga, and liked the site at the Yellow Water Lake some one hundred kilometers downstream from Nizhny Novgorod. In those days, this was no-man's land between the Russian principalities, and the Kazan Khanate. The saint dug a small cave by the waters of the Yellow Water Lake, and stayed there day and night, emulating the great hermits ofthe past. However, his solitude did not last long: pious people from far and wide came to his hermitage, some to seek his blessing, others to join him in hermetic life. In 1434, he founded Zheltovodsky Makariev Monastery of Holy Trinity for his disciples.

7. Peter Ivanovich Yasnov (Astronomer)
He proposed the ideas of the chain method by the levelling off of the positions of weak stars, creation of thee independent system of the right ascensions of stars on the base of aseries of the observations on the large transit instrument in Pulkovo observatory, which lasted about 100years.

8. Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev(Electrical Engineer)
The creator of MESM (a small eletroniccalculating machine), one of the first universally programmable computers incontinental Europe in 1950. It hadabout 6,000 vacuum tubes and consumed 25 kW of power. It could perform approximately 3,000 operations persecond.

9. Valerey Nikolaevich Soifyer(Geneticist)
Active member of the American societyof molecular biology and biochemistry and number of other international societies. He wrote more than 20 booksand 300 works, published in the Russian, English, German, French,Czech and other languages. rewarded with the Gregor Mendel's award.

10. Vladimir Andreevich Steklov(Scientist)
Steklov's primary scientific contribution is in the area oforthogonal functional sets. He
introduced a class of closed orthogonal sets; developed asymptoticLiouville-Steklov's method for orthogonal polynomials; proved theorems on generalized Fourierseries. Steklov developed approximation technique later named Steklov function.