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 national average (1:646) in the following subjects of the Russian Federation:[1]

People
  • 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
  • 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

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References
  1. Volkov surname distribution
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