Kalinin (surname) explained

Kalinin (Russian: Кали́нин pronounced as /ru/), or Kalinina (feminine; Кали́нина pronounced as /ru/), is a Russian surname, derived from the word kalina (калина, meaning "guelder rose"). Notable people with the surname include:

• Aleksandr Kalinin (disambiguation) – several persons
• Anatoĺ Kalinin (born 1959), Belarusian politician and diplomat
• Anhelina Kalinina (born 1997), Ukrainian tennis player
• Dmitri Kalinin (born 1980), Russian hockey player
• Ekaterina Kalinina (1882–1960), First Lady of the Soviet Union (1922–1946)
• Fedor Kalinin (1882–1920), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician
• Ganna Kalinina (born 1979), Ukrainian Olympic sailor
• Irina Kalinina (born 1959), Soviet diver
• Igor Kalinin (born 1959), Ukrainian politician
• Ihor Kalinin (born 1995), Ukrainian footballer
• Konstantin Kalinin (1889–1940), Soviet aircraft designer
• Ludmila Kalinina (born 1957), skating coach
• Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, head of state of Soviet Russia and later of the Soviet Union
• Natalia Kalinina (born 1973), Soviet gymnast
• Sergei Kalinin (disambiguation) – several persons
• Yana Kalinina (born 1994), Ukrainian footballer
• Vladislava Kalinina (born 1980), Ukrainian chess player