Yakovlev (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yakovlev (Яковлев) or Yakovleva (feminine) is a popular Russian surname which may refer to the following people:
- Alexander Yakovlev, a former United Nations official
- Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923–2005), a Soviet politician credited with promoting glasnost
- Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906–1989), a Russian aeronautical engineer and airplane designer
- Yakovlev Design Bureau: the design bureau founded by him
- Alexander Stepanovich Yakovlev, a Russian writer
- Alexei Yakovlev, a Russian historian
- Alexei Semyonovich Yakovlev, a Russian actor
- Anatoli Yakovlev (1913–1993), Soviet spymaster in New York City in the mid-1940s, linked with Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs and Julius Rosenberg
- Boris Yakovlev, a Soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR
- Ivan Yakovlev, a Chuvash writer and enlightener
- Kondrat Yakovlev, a Russian actor
- Lora Yakovleva (b. 1932), a Russian chess grandmaster
- Nikolai Yakovlev, a Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR
- Nikolai Dmitriyevich Yakovlev, a Soviet military leader
- Nikolai Feofanovich Yakovlev, a Russian linguist
- Nikolai Yakovlev (geologist), a Russian geologist and paleonthologist
- Nikolai Yakovlev (revolutionary), a Russian revolutionary
- Pavel Yakovlev, a Soviet selectionist
- Postnik Yakovlev, the architect of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow
- Sergei Yakovlev, a Russian geologist
- Vadim Yakovlev, a Cossack commander
- Valentin Yakovlev, a Russian revolutionary, who promoted the Soviet rule in Siberia
- Varvara Yakovleva, a Soviet statesman and party figure
- Vasili Yakovlev, a Soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR
- Vladimir Igorevich Yakovlev (1934-1998), an avant-garde painter
- Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlev (b. 1944), a Russian politician, Minister of Regional Development
- Yakov Yakovlev, a Soviet statesman and politician
- Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (1930–2005), a Russian journalist
- Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (b. 1928), a popular Soviet film actor
- Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, an Old Bolshevik and Soviet government official.
- Varvara Yakovleva (died July 18, 1918), a Russian Orthodox nun who was killed with Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna following the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was later canonized as a martyr.