Nikitin Explained

Nikitin (Russian: Никитин), or Nikitina (feminine; Никитина) is a common Russian surname that derives from the male given name Nikita and literally means Nikita's. It may refer to:

Artists, musicians, authors

• Yevgeny Nikitin (bass-baritone), bass-baritone
• Ivan Nikitich Nikitin (c. 1690 - 1742), Russian painter
• Gury Nikitin (1620 - 1691), Russian icon painter
• Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824–1861), Russian poet
• Basil Nikitin (1885–1960), Russian orientalist and diplomat
• Sergey Nikitin (musician), contemporary Russian composer, singer and bard
• Tatyana Nikitina, contemporary Russian singer and composer (wife of musician Sergey Nikitin)
• Victor Ivanovich Nikitin, Soviet soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble
• Yuri Nikitin (author), contemporary Russian sci-fi writer
• (b. 1950), Russian sculptor

Athletes

• Andriy Nikitin, Ukrainian football player and manager
• Larisa Nikitina, contemporary Russian heptathlete
• Vera Nikitina, contemporary Soviet hurdling athlete
• Yuri Nikitin (gymnast), Ukrainian trampolinist
• Boris Nikitin, Georgian swimmer
• Nikita Nikitin, Russian ice hockey player
• Sarah Nikitin, Brazilian Archer
• Diana Nikitina, Latvian Figure Skater

Scientists, engineers and architects

• Boris Nikitin (1906–1952), Soviet radiochemist
• Nikolai Nikitin (1907–1973), Soviet structural design and construction engineer
• Vasilii Vasilyevich Nikitin (1901–1955), Soviet aircraft engineer
• Tatiana Nikitina, linguist

Botanists

There are at least five botanists with this surname, shown here followed by their standard author abbreviations :

• Sergei Alekseevich Nikitin (1898–?)   S.A.Nikitin
• Sergei Nikolaevic Nikitin (1850–1909)   Nikitin
• Vasilii Vasilevich Nikitin (1906–1988)   V.V.Nikitin
• Vladimir Alekseevich Nikitin (1906–1974)   V.A.Nikitin
• Vladimir V. Nikitin (fl. 1996)   Vl.V.Nikitin

Others

• Afanasiy Nikitin (died 1472), a Russian explorer and merchant
• Alexander Nikitin, contemporary Russian environment activist and a dissident Navy officer
• , Russian artillery officer of the Napoleonic Wars
• Andrey Grigoryevich Nikitin (general) (1891–1957), Soviet general
• Anfal Nikitin (fl. 1360), Novgorod boyar and ushkuynik
• Basil Nikitin Soviet orientalist and diplomat
• Nikolay Aleksandrovich Nikitin (general), (1900–1984), Soviet general
• Vladilen Nikitin (1936–2021), Russian engineer and politician
• Vladimir Nikitin, multiple people
• Viktor Nikitin (1893 - 1933), Russian and Serbian pilot, killed in the first disaster of Yugoslav civil aviation