Example sentences for: nikolai

How can you use “nikolai” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • South of the Rotes Rathaus, the neighborhood of Nikolai was restored for Berlin’s 750th anniversary celebrations in 1987, as a “clean” example of Old Berlin.

  • But as far as American journalism is concerned, that pronouncement is not quite correct, because more often than not American journalists began and for an embarrassingly long time continued not with Vladimir or Ilich (as the founding Bolshevik is sometime affectionately called, peasant-fashion by his patronymic) but with Nikolai Lenin.

  • Lenin did use the pseudonym N. Lenin , among scores of others, and maybe a self-styled authority assumed that the N . stood for Nikolai , a name that may have been suggested by that of the Russian emperor.

  • Early plant collections made by people such as Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) or Jack Harlan (1917–1998) inspired the international community to establish long-term collections of plant genetic resources that provide modern plant breeders with the material they need to creatively address the challenges of today (Box 1).

  • For example, The Columbia Encyclopedia , in an edition last copyrighted in 1940, has an appropriately long entry for “the founder of the USSR” under Lenin, Nikolai . How this mistake came about in the first place no one is certain.


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