Balabanov
Balabanov (Balaban, Balabanoff, Ballabon, etc.) and their derivatives (-ovs, -ich, etc.) are common last names in Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia.
Prominent Balabanovs
- Aleksei Balabanov (1959-2013), a Russian filmmaker
- Andrey Balabanov, Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer
- Angelica Balabanov (1878-1965), a Russian-Italian Marxist revolutionary, Comintern secretary in 1919-1921
- Kostantyn Balabanov (b. 1982), a Ukrainian football player
- Vasile Balabanov (1873-1947), a Provincial Administrator of Imperial Russia
- Family Balabanovi in North Macedonia in Shtip
Origins of the name
Possible origins of the name according to Dr. Tudor Balabanov:
- 1. in the Kazakh Mountains there is an eagle called Balaban from which the name may be derived.
- 2. One of the recipients of this name may have been the Persians that around 4000 years ago started naming the leading three soldiers of a battalion, namely: the one with the flag, those with a drum, and the one with a blow instrument - the Balabans.
- 3. The Turks may have taken over this name and given it to the relatively tall non-Muslim men from their territories.
gollark: I mean, it's already approximately happening to all general purpose computers.
gollark: But assuming the horrible problems can somehow be avoided, BCIs and/or mind uploading could be highly cool.
gollark: I'd also worry that governments would insist on them having some overrides to stop people if they try murder or something (because murder is bad and if you disagree with this policy you're clearly pro-murder) which would then inevitably be expanded to other crimes and "crimes".
gollark: Unless they design the software ground-up with strong security and formal verification or something. But that doesn't seem to be what's happening.
gollark: With the current state of software security I do *not* want brain implants.
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