Melnikov

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Melnikov is a Eastern European surname, possibly of Russian origin. A variant of this name spelling may be Melnikoff. As many other surnames, it derives from a trade name, the root melnik meaning miller, one who mills grain.

Melnikov may refer to:

• Melnikov, a surname:
  • Konstantin Melnikov, a Russian architect
  • B. Melnikov, one of the creators of the Strela computer, winner of a 1954 Stalin Prize
  • Leonid Melnikov, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Communist party leader from 1949-1953
  • Vitaly Melnikov, Russian director of the play "Poor, Poor Pavel", based on the life of Petr Alekseevich Pahlen
  • Pavel Melnikov, member of the 1996 bronze medal winning Russian Olympic Men’s Eight with Coxswain (a type of rowing) team
  • There are two unnamed Melnikov members of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
  • Jakov Melnikov, bronze medal winner for speed skating in 1923
  • Pavel Melnikov, a Russian engineer, partially responsible for their first rail line, the Moscow to Saint Petersburg line
  • Oleg Aleksandrovich Melnikov, a Russian astronomer (for whom 2237 Melnikov was named)
  • Bob Melnikov, a fictional character in the ReGenesis TV series played by Dmitry Chepovetsky
  • Melnikov, a fictional character in the novel StarCraft: Speed of Darkness
• 2237 Melnikov, an asteroid discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin, a Russian astronomer
• The Melnikov house, created by Konstantin Melnikov
• The Melnikov-Arnold Integral, a mathematical equation.