NEMIROV NIKOLAY GRIGORIEVICH (16.03.1919-19.06.1976)
1973-1976 - Director of the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin

Graduate of the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature, 1941. Colonel (retired), Honoured Cultural Worker of the USSR.

He served in the Soviet Army from the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. From August 1941 to August 1943, he rose from private to deputy battery commander for political affairs in the Western Front Air Defence Forces. From August 1943 to September 1945, he was Deputy Head of the Political Department for Young Communist League Affairs at the Western Front Air Defence Training Centre. From October 1945 to August 1947 he was Senior Instructor in the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Political Directorate of the North Western Air Defence District. From August 1947 to April 1956 he was Senior Instructor in the Cultural Department of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy. From April 1956 he was Deputy Head of Research and from December 1957 to March 1969 (until his retirement on length of service) he was Head of the Central Museum of the Soviet Army (from 1965, the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR). From April 1969 to April 1973 he was Deputy Head of the Directorate of Fine Arts and Preservation of Artefacts of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.

From April 1973 until his death N.G. Nemirov was Director of the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin. Under his leadership, a concise thematic structure and a thematic-exhibition plan were developed for the Armoury Chamber exhibition, which opened in 1986.

He was awarded state decorations - the Order of the Red Star (1956) and nine medals.