Abalkin (Russian: Аба́лкин; masculine) or Abalkina (Аба́лкина; feminine) is a Russian surname. It derives from the Pskov regional dialectal word "аба́лка" (abalka) or "оба́лка" (obalka), meaning a bale, a bundle, or, by analogy, a swaddled child.[1]
- People with this last name
- Leonid Abalkin (1930–2011), Soviet/Russian economist
- Fictional characters
- Lev Abalkin, a character in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe
References edit
Notes edit
- ^ Fedosyuk, entry on "Абалкин" Archived 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine.
Sources edit
- Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary). Москва, 2006. ISBN 978-5-89349-216-3
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