Gogol in Popular Culture
- Gogol has been featured many times on Russian and Soviet postage stamps; he is also well represented on stamps worldwide.
- Several commemorative coins have been issued from Russia and the USSR. On 19 March 2009, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative coin dedicated to Gogol.
- Streets have been named after Gogol in Moscow, Lipetsk, Odessa, Myrhorod, Krasnodar, Vladimir, Vladivostok, Penza, Petrozavodsk, Riga, Bratislava, Harbin and many other towns and cities.
- Gogol is referenced multiple times in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Chekhov's The Seagull.
- More than 35 films have been based on Gogol's work, the most recent being The Girl in the White Coat (2011).
- BBC Radio 4 made a series of six Gogol short stories, entitled Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat (2002, adaptations by Jim Poyser).
- In music, the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello is named after Gogol.
- A song by Joy Division, "Dead Souls" (1980), is named after his novel.
- The band "Moon&Melody" performed a musical version of Nikolai Gogol's Viy (story) at the "Museum für Sepulkralkultur", Kassel, Germany (2011).
- James Bond's competitor (and occasional ally) is named General Gogol.
- Gogolfest is the annual multidisciplinary international festival of contemporary art held in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Gogol is the name of a Russian criminal organization in the TV series Nikita.
- The protagonist of the novel The Namesake, Gogol Ganguli, is named after Nikolai Gogol.
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