Nikolai Smirnov may refer to: Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov (1917–1992), Soviet Navy Admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Mikhailovich Smirnov, Governor of the Saint Petersburg Governorate, 1855–1861 Nikolai Smirnov (cinematographer), Soviet film cinematographer that shot Aerograd Nikolai Smirnov (water polo) (born 1961), Soviet water polo player who participated in the 1988 Olympics Nikolai Smirnov (mathematician) (1900–1966), Soviet mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov (?–?), head of the Office of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)