Yelagin (surname)

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

• Yelagin family, Russian noble family (ru:Елагины)
• Ivan Elagin (poet) (1918–1987), Russuan Emigre poet
• Nikolay Elagin (1817–1891), Russian writer and notorious censor
• Olga Elagin, poetess Olga Anstei
• Vasily Igorevich Yelagin, Russian mountaineer and explorer
• Vasily Ivanovich Yelagin (1743-??), Russian general (ru:Елагин, Василий Иванович)
• Ivan Yelagin 1725–1794), Russian historian and poet, unofficial secretary to Catherine the Great
• Vladimir Yelagin (born 1955), Russian politician
• Ivan Oleksandrovych Yelagin (1934–2007), Ukrainian poet (uk:Єлагін Іван Олександрович)

• Ekaterina Elagina, geologist, discoverer of the deposits of the Mir diamond mine

Fictional people

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