# Volkov (surname)

Volkov (Russian: 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 [uk] (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
* Shulamit Volkov, Israeli historian
* 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.
* Alex Volkov, from Twisted Love, written by Ana Huang