Yelagin (surname)

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

  • Yelagin family [ru], 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 [uk] (1934–2007), Ukrainian poet
  • Nikolay Elagin [ru] (1817–1891), Russian writer and notorious censor
  • Olga Elagin, poet Olga Anstei
  • Vasily Igorevich Yelagin, Russian mountaineer and explorer
  • Vasily Ivanovich Yelagin [ru] (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)