Volkov (surname)
Volkov (Russian: Во́лков), or Volkova (feminine; Во́лкова), is a common Russian surname. It is derived from the word волк (volk, meaning "wolf").
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 79.6% of all known bearers of the surname Volkov were residents of Russia (frequency 1:646), 6.5% of Ukraine (1:2,493), 3.9% of Belarus (1:868), 3.8% of Kazakhstan (1:1,613) and 3.3% of Uzbekistan (1:3,351).
In Russia, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:646) in the following subjects of the Russian Federation:[1]
- 1. Kostroma Oblast (1:266)
- 2. Ivanovo Oblast (1:270)
- 3. Mari El (1:308)
- 4. Yaroslavl Oblast (1:316)
- 5. Udmurtia (1:324)
- 6. Ulyanovsk Oblast (1:338)
- 7. Tomsk Oblast (1:364)
- 8. Chuvashia (1:366)
- 9. Vladimir Oblast (1:371)
- 10. Magadan Oblast (1:382)
- 11. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1:399)
- 12. Jewish Autonomous Oblast (1:414)
- 13. Kaluga Oblast (1:427)
- 14. Tver Oblast (1:446)
- 15. Moscow Oblast (1:461)
- 16. Tambov Oblast (1:468)
- 17. Khabarovsk Krai (1:486)
- 18. Smolensk Oblast (1:487)
- 19. Tula Oblast (1:487)
- 20. Novosibirsk Oblast (1:499)
- 21. Penza Oblast (1:532)
- 22. Vologda Oblast (1:544)
- 23. Sakhalin Oblast (1:559)
- 24. Moscow (1:568)
- 25. Kaliningrad Oblast (1:578)
- 26. Pskov Oblast (1:588)
- 27. Leningrad Oblast (1:594)
- 28. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (1:603)
- 29. Mordovia (1:614)
- 30. Ryazan Oblast (1:624)
- 31. Belgorod Oblast (1:646)
People
- Adrian Volkov (1827–1873), Russian genre painter
- Aleksei Volkov, see there for complete list
- Alexander Volkov, see there for complete list
- Anatole Volkov, courier for the Silvermaster spy ring
- Anatoly Volkov (1909–?), Soviet literary critic
- Boris Volkov (1900–1970), Soviet stage designer
- Boris N. Volkov (1894–1954), Russian poet
- Dmitry Volkov, Russian volleyball player
- Dmitry Volkov, Soviet swimmer
- Dmitry Volkov (1718–1785), Russian statesman
- Esteban Volkov, grandson of Leon Trotsky
- Fyodor Volkov, "the father of the Russian theater"
- Fyodor Volkov (1847–1918), Ukrainian ethnographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist
- Fyodor Andreyevich Volkov (1898–1954), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Igor F. Volkov, a Russian soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble
- Ilan Volkov, Israeli conductor
- Ivan Volkov (b. 1954), Russian saxophone and clarinet player and jazzman
- Konstantin Volkov, see there for complete list
- Leonid Volkov, Russian politician
- Mikhail Volkov (1922–?), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Nadezhda Volkova (1920–1942), Soviet partisan and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Nikolay Volkov (disambiguation), see there for complete list
- Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, United States
- Oleksandr Volkov (b. 1989), Ukrainian footballer
- Olga Volkova (b. 1939), Russian actress
- Olha Volkova (b. 1986), Ukrainian freestyle skier
- Semyon Volkov (1845–1924), Russian revolutionary
- Sergey Volkov, see there for complete list
- Solomon Volkov, Russian musicologist
- Valentin Volkov (painter) (1881–1964), Soviet painter
- Valery Volkov, Soviet horse rider
- Vasily Volkov (1840-1907), Russian painter
- Vasily Stepanovich Volkov (1922–?), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Vera Volkova, Russian ballet dancer
- Viktor Volkov (1917–1998), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Vitali Volkov, FC Torpedo Moscow midfielder
- Vladimir Volkov (born 1986), Montenegrin footballer
- Vladimir Volkov (musician) (born 1960), Russian contrabass player and jazzman
- Vladimir Dmitriyevich Volkov (b. 1954), Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia
- Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Volkov (crater), a lunar crater bearing his name
- 1790 Volkov, an asteroid bearing his name
- Yefim Volkov (1844–1920), Russian landscape painter
- Yulia Volkova, member of the group t.A.T.u.
- Zinaida Volkova, Russian Marxist, daughter of Leon Trotsky
- Yuri Volkov, retired Soviet ice hockey player
In fiction
- Volkov, a cyborg supersoldier created by the Soviet Union in the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
- Ivan Volkov, a Bulgarian Quidditch player featured in J.K. Rowling's 2000 fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Ivan Volkov, a fictional powerful Russian (probably born Soviet) memorabilia collector played by Savannah's actor father in Swindle.
References
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