Nikitin

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

Artists, musicians, authors

 * Yevgeny Nikitin (bass-baritone), bass-baritone
 * Ivan Nikitich Nikitin (c. 1690–1742), Russian painter
 * Gury Nikitin (1620–1691), Russian icon painter
 * Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824–1861), Russian poet
 * Basil Nikitin (1885–1960), Russian orientalist and diplomat
 * 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
 * Sergei Alekseevich Nikitin (b. 1950), Russian sculptor

Athletes

 * Andriy Nikitin, Ukrainian football player and manager
 * Larisa Nikitina, contemporary Russian heptathlete
 * Vera Nikitina, contemporary Soviet hurdling athlete
 * Yuri Nikitin (gymnast), Ukrainian trampolinist
 * Boris Nikitin, Georgian swimmer
 * Nikita Nikitin, Russian ice hockey player
 * Sarah Nikitin, Brazilian Archer
 * Diana Nikitina, Latvian Figure Skater

Scientists, engineers and architects

 * Boris Nikitin (1906–1952), Soviet radiochemist
 * Nikolai Nikitin (1907–1973), Soviet structural design and construction engineer
 * Vasilii Vasilyevich Nikitin (1901–1955), Soviet aircraft engineer
 * Tatiana Nikitina, linguist

Botanists

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


 * Sergei Alekseevich Nikitin (1898–?)  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 (died 1472), a Russian explorer and merchant
 * Alexander Nikitin, contemporary Russian environment activist and a dissident Navy officer
 * Alexey Petrovich Nikitin, Russian artillery officer of the Napoleonic Wars
 * Andrey Grigoryevich Nikitin (general) (1891–1957), Soviet general
 * Anfal Nikitin (fl. 1360), Novgorod boyar and ushkuynik
 * Basil Nikitin Soviet orientalist and diplomat
 * Nikolay Aleksandrovich Nikitin (general), (1900–1984), Soviet general
 * Vladilen Nikitin (1936–2021), Russian engineer and politician
 * Vladimir Nikitin, multiple people
 * Viktor Nikitin (1893–1933), Russian and Serbian pilot, killed in the first disaster of Yugoslav civil aviation