Averin (surname)

Averin (Russian: Аверин; masculine) or Averina (Аверина; feminine) is a Russian last name, a variant of Averkiyev.[1] The following people share this last name:

  • Aleksandr Averin (disambiguation), several people
  • Andrey Averin, resident of Comedy Club, a Russian stand-up comedy TV show
  • Arina Averina and Dina Averina (both b. 1998), twin sisters, Russian rhythmic gymnasts
  • Egor Averin (Yegor Averin) (b. 1989), Russian ice hockey player
  • Joyce Helena Averina, 1987 British Empire Medal recipient
  • Konstantin Averin, Kazakhstani gymnast participating in the Men's Pair event at the 2010 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships
  • Maksym Averin, Ukrainian cyclist, member of the Azerbaijani Synergy Baku Cycling Project cycling team
  • Maxim Averin, actor playing Shidla in the 2006 Russian science fiction movie Asiris Nuna
  • Mikhail Averin, Soviet pilot claiming to be the assailant of George Andrew Davis, Jr., US World War II flying ace
  • Natalya Averina, Miss World 2010 contestant representing Denmark
  • Oleksandr Averin, Ukrainian cross-country skiing trainer of the Turkish team at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  • Tatyana Averina (1950–2001), Soviet/Russian Olympic speed skater
  • Vasiliy Averin, head of the Yekaterinoslav Bolshevik Uprising in 1918 and of the Executive Committee of Volhynian Governorate in 1920
  • Viktor Averin, Russian criminal who, together with Sergey Mikhaylov, founded the Solntsevo criminal group
  • Yury Averin, actor who played Muller in the 1959 Soviet movie Destiny of a Man

References

Notes
  1. Fedosyuk, entry on "Аверин".

Sources
  • Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary). Москва, 2006. ISBN 978-5-89349-216-3
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