Aksyonov (surname)

Aksyonov (Аксёнов; masculine) or Aksyonova (Аксёнова; feminine), alternatively spelled Aksenov/Aksenova, is a Russian surname. Variants of this surname include Avksentyev/Avksentyeva (Авксе́нтьев/Авксе́нтьева), Aksanov/Aksanova (Акса́нов/Акса́нова), Aksentyev/Aksentyeva (Аксе́нтьев/Аксе́нтьева), Aksentsev/Aksentseva (Аксе́нцев/Аксе́нцева), Aksentsov/Aksentsov (Аксенцо́в/Аксенцо́ва), Aksyutin/Aksyutina (Аксю́тин/Аксю́тина), Aksyanov/Aksyanova (Акся́нов/Акся́нова), and Oksyonov/Oksyonova (also spelled Oksenov/Oksenova) (Оксёнов/Оксёнова).

All these surnames derive from various forms of the Christian male first name Avksenty (from Greek auxanō, meaning to increase). The following people share this surname:
 * Aleksandr Aksyonov (disambiguation), several people
 * Aleksey Aksyonov (born 1987), Russian sprint athlete
 * Alisa Aksyonova (Алиса Аксёнова) (born 1931), Russian museum director
 * Alyona Aksyonova, Uzbekistani shooter participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Anastasia Aksenova (Anastasiya Aksyonova) (born 1990), Russian swimmer
 * Antonina Aksyonova, adopted child of Yevgenia Ginzburg, Soviet dissident writer
 * Grigoriy Aksenov (Grigory Aksyonov), Kazakhstani participants in the second heat of the 2005 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres
 * Anastasia Aksenova (Aksyonova) (born 1990), Russian swimmer
 * Boris Aksenov (Boris Aksyonov), bass guitarist, one of the original members of Zemlyane, a Soviet/Russian rock band
 * Igor Aksyonov (born 1977), Russian association football player
 * Irina Aksyonova (born 1962), Soviet Olympic swimmer
 * Lyubov Aksenova (Lyubov Aksyonova), Soviet participant in Heat 3 of the 1971 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres
 * Lyubov Aksyonova, name of Russian philologist Lyubov Sova after 1979
 * Lyudmila Aksyonova (born 1947), Soviet athlete
 * Maksim Aksyonov (disambiguation), several people
 * Nikolay Aksyonov (born 1970), Russian Olympic rower
 * Nikolay Aksenov, Soviet participant in the Continental Final at the 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship
 * Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995), Dolgan poet, founder of the Dolgan written literature
 * Oleksandr Aksyonov (born 1994), Ukrainian association football player
 * Pavel Aksyonov, second husband of Yevgenia Ginzburg, Soviet dissident writer and father of writer Vasily Aksyonov
 * Pyotr Aksyonov, founder of the Court of Auditors, a historical predecessor of the modern Accounts Chamber of Russia
 * Sergei Aksenov (Sergey Aksyonov) (born 1971), Russian politician
 * Sergey Aksyonov (born 1972), Prime Minister of Crimea
 * Vasily Aksyonov (1932-2009), Soviet/Russian writer
 * Vladimir Aksyonov (born 1935), Soviet cosmonaut and double Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Yana Aksenova, one of the theremin performers invited to perform songs included into the Teen Age Message, a series of interstellar radio transmissions
 * Yekaterina Aksenova, maintainer of the Russian Gov-Gov webblog, a part of Government 2.0
 * Yuri Aksenov (Yury Aksyonov) (born 1973), Kazakhstani association football player