Volkov (surname)

Volkov (Во́лков), or Volkova (feminine; Во́лкова), is a common Russian surname. It is derived from the word волк (volk, meaning "wolf").

People

 * Adrian Volkov (1827–1873), Russian genre painter
 * Aleksei Volkov, see there for complete list
 * Alexander Volkov, see there for complete list
 * Alla Volkova
 * Anastasia Volkova
 * Anatole Volkov, courier for the Silvermaster spy ring
 * Anatoly Volkov (1909–?), Soviet literary critic
 * Anna Volkova
 * Anna Volkova (athlete)
 * Boris Volkov (1900–1970), Soviet stage designer
 * Boris N. Volkov (1894–1954), Russian poet
 * Bronislava Volková
 * Dmitry Volkov, Russian volleyball player
 * Dmitry Volkov, Soviet swimmer
 * Dmitry Volkov (1718–1785), Russian statesman
 * Ekaterina Volkova (rhythmic gymnast)
 * Elena Volkova (basketball)
 * Elena Volkova (painter)
 * 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
 * Julia Volkova, Russian singer, best known as a member of the girl group t.A.T.u.
 * Konstantin Volkov, see there for complete list
 * Leonid Volkov, Russian politician
 * Liliya Volkova
 * Lotta Volkova
 * Lyubov Volkova
 * 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
 * Yekaterina Volkova (runner)
 * Yekaterina Volkova (swimmer)
 * Yekaterina Volkova (actress)
 * Yekaterina Volkova (actress and singer)
 * Yelena Volkova (swimmer)
 * Yelena Volkova (volleyball)
 * Zinaida Volkova, Russian Marxist, daughter of Leon Trotsky
 * Yuliya Volkova (swimmer)
 * Yuri Volkov, retired Soviet ice hockey player

Fictional characters

 * 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.