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. Kostroma Oblast (1:266)
• 2. Ivanovo Oblast (1:270)
• 3. Mari El (1:308)
• 4. Yaroslavl Oblast (1:316)
• 5. Udmurtia (1:324)
• 6. Ulyanovsk Oblast (1:338)
• 7. Tomsk Oblast (1:364)
• 8. Chuvashia (1:366)
• 9. Vladimir Oblast (1:371)
• 10. Magadan Oblast (1:382)
• 11. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1:399)
• 12. Jewish Autonomous Oblast (1:414)
• 13. Kaluga Oblast (1:427)
• 14. Tver Oblast (1:446)
• 15. Moscow Oblast (1:461)
• 16. Tambov Oblast (1:468)
• 17. Khabarovsk Krai (1:486)
• 18. Smolensk Oblast (1:487)
• 19. Tula Oblast (1:487)
• 20. Novosibirsk Oblast (1:499)
• 21. Penza Oblast (1:532)
• 22. Vologda Oblast (1:544)
• 23. Sakhalin Oblast (1:559)
• 24. Moscow (1:568)
• 25. Kaliningrad Oblast (1:578)
• 26. Pskov Oblast (1:588)
• 27. Leningrad Oblast (1:594)
• 28. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (1:603)
• 29. Mordovia (1:614)
• 30. Ryazan Oblast (1:624)
• 31. Belgorod Oblast (1:646)

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
  • Volkov (crater), a lunar crater bearing his name
  • 1790 Volkov, an asteroid bearing his name
• 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

In fiction

• Volkov, a cyborg supersoldier created by the Soviet Union in the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
• Ivan Volkov, a Bulgarian Quidditch player featured in J.K. Rowling's 2000 fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
• Ivan Volkov, a fictional powerful Russian (probably born Soviet) memorabilia collector played by Savannah's actor father in Swindle.