- Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose, first performed in 1930, is based on this story.
- A short film based on the story[16] was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963 and used pinscreen animation.
- Another animated short film, made in 1966, directed by Mordicai Gerstein and narrated by Brother Theodore, shifted the story to Pittsburgh and changed the names (the barber is named "Theodore Schneider" and the nose-loser is named "Nathan Nasspigel").[17]
- Rolan Bykov directed a TV film adapted from the story in 1977.[18] Andrei Amalrik's play "Nose! Nose? No-se!", like Gogol's short story, features a Major Kovalyov who wanders around St. Petersburg in search of his nose. The Kovalyov in Amalrik's play lives in a Marxist totalitarian society and is excessively concerned about his middle-class status.
- Grammy-award-winning musical brothers Jason and Christophe Beck wrote and composed a musical titled "The Nose of Polton Worth" in 1990 based on this story, performed in Montreal and New Haven.[19]
- A play for radio based on the story was written by UK author Avanti Kumar and first produced and broadcast in Ireland by RTÉ in 1995.
- In April 2002, the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat broadcast an adaptation of the story starring Stephen Moore.[20]
- An album in Romanian, based on the story, was released by Ada Milea and Bogdan Burlăcianu in 2007.
- A play based on the short story was written by Tom Swift and produced by The Performance Corporation in 2008.
- The Fat Git Theatre Company[21] performed their adaptation of the short story in 2011.
- WMSE (91.7 FM in Milwaukee, WI) broadcast an adaptation by Wisconsin Hybrid Theater (Radio WHT)[22] in 2011.
- The Moscow Museum of Erotic Art put on an adaptation based on Vladimir Putin losing his genitalia to coincide with the 2012 presidential election.[23]
- Due to the popularity of Gogol's works in Russia and beyond, many cultural monuments to his works, including The Nose have been created.
- A translated audio book version of the short story was published in Malayalam by Kathacafe in 2017.[24]
- In January 2020, Andrei Khrzhanovsky released the official adaptation of the short story, The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks, as a stop-motion animated film.[25]
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