Yelagin (surname)

Yelagin or Elagin (feminine: Yelagina, Elagina) is a Russian-language surname. It may refer to:

Yelagin family, Russian noble family
Ekaterina Elagina, geologist, discoverer of the deposits of the Mir diamond mine
Ivan Elagin (poet) (1918–1987), Russuan Emigre poet
Ivan Yelagin (1725–1794), Russian historian and poet, unofficial secretary to Catherine the Great
Ivan Oleksandrovych Yelagin (1934–2007), Ukrainian poet
Nikolay Elagin (1817–1891), Russian writer and notorious censor
Olga Elagin, poet Olga Anstei
Vasily Igorevich Yelagin, Russian mountaineer and explorer
Vasily Ivanovich Yelagin (1743–?), Russian general
Vladimir Yelagin (born 1955), Russian politician

Fictional characters

Yelagin, the protagonist of Ivan Bunin's novella Case of Cornet Yelagin (Дело корнета Елагина)

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