Nikolay Krasovsky was born in
Yekaterinburg (renamed later to Sverdlovsk that year) in the family of a doctor. In 1949, he graduated summa cum laude from the department of metallurgical science at the
Ural State Technical University. In 1954, he presented his first thesis and received his
Candidate of Sciences degree in mathematics. In 1957, he defended his second thesis for the degree of
Doctor of Sciences and became a professor of mathematics. From 1949 to 1959, he worked at the Ural State Technical University. Since 1958, he worked at the
Ural State University. • 1949–1951 – assistant at the
Ural State Technical University • 1954–1955 – associate professor (docent) at the Ural State Technical University • 1958–1959 – professor at the Ural State Technical University • 1959–1960 – chief of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the
Ural State University • 1961–1963 – chief of the chair of computing mathematics at the Ural State University In 1963
Stanford University Press published a translation of his book ''Stability of Motion: applications of Lyapunov's second method to differential systems and equations with delay'' that had been prepared by
Joel Lee Brenner. • 1965–1970 – chief of the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University • 1970–1977 – director the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences • 1971–1986 – professor at the chair of applied mathematics at the Ural State University • since 1986 until his death – professor of the chair of theoretical mechanics at the Ural State University • Advisor of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences He died in Yekaterinburg aged 87, and was buried at the Shirokorechenskoye Cemetery. ==Honours==