Yelagin (surname)

Yelagin or Elagin (feminine: Yelagina, Elagina) is a Russian-language surname. It may refer to:


 * Yelagin family, Russian noble family
 * Ekaterina Elagina, geologist, discoverer of the deposits of the Mir diamond mine
 * Ivan Elagin (poet) (1918–1987), Russian Emigre poet
 * Ivan Yelagin (1725–1794), Russian historian and poet, unofficial secretary to Catherine the Great
 * Ivan Oleksandrovych Yelagin (1934–2007), Ukrainian poet
 * Nikolay Elagin (1817–1891), Russian writer and notorious censor
 * Olga Elagin, poet Olga Anstei
 * Vasily Igorevich Yelagin, Russian mountaineer and explorer
 * Vasily Ivanovich Yelagin (1743–?), Russian general
 * Vladimir Yelagin (born 1955), Russian politician

Fictional characters

 * Yelagin, the protagonist of Ivan Bunin's novella Case of Cornet Yelagin (Дело корнета Елагина)