Nikitin

Nikitin (Russian: Никитин), or Nikitina (feminine; Никитина) is a common Russian surname that derives from the given name Nikita. It may refer to:

Artists, fine artists and authors

• Ivan Nikitich Nikitin (c. 1690–1742), Russian painter
• Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824–1861), Russian poet
• Sergey Nikitin (musician), contemporary Russian composer, singer and bard
• Tatyana Nikitina, contemporary Russian singer and composer (wife of musician Sergey Nikitin)
• Victor Ivanovich Nikitin, Soviet soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble
• Yuri Nikitin (author), contemporary Russian sci-fi writer

Athletes

• Larisa Nikitina, contemporary Russian heptathlete
• Vera Nikitina, contemporary Soviet hurdling athlete
• Yuri Nikitin (gymnast), Ukrainian trampolinist

Scientists, engineers and architects

• Boris Nikitin (1906–1952), Soviet radiochemist
• Taneli Nikitin, a Finnish physiotherapist
• Nikolai Nikitin (1907–1973), Soviet structural design and construction engineer
• Vasilii Vasilyevich Nikitin (1901–1955), Soviet aircraft engineer

Botanists

There are at least five botanists with this surname, shown here followed by their standard author abbreviations :

• S. A. Nikitin (fl. 1937)   S.A.Nikitin
• Sergei Nikolaevic Nikitin (1850–1909)   Nikitin
• Vasilii Vasilevich Nikitin (1906–1988)   V.V.Nikitin
• Vladimir Alekseevich Nikitin (1906–1974)   V.A.Nikitin
• Vladimir V. Nikitin (fl. 1996)   Vl.V.Nikitin

Others

• Afanasiy Nikitin (?–1472), a Russian explorer and merchant
• Rodrigo Nikitin, a Brasilian Specialist IT
• Alexander Nikitin, contemporary Russian environment activist and a dissident Navy officer
• Anfal Nikitin (fl. 1360), Novgorod boyar and ushkuynik
• Viktor Nikitin (1893–1933), Russian and Serbian pilot, killed in the first disaster of Yugoslav civil aviation