Ovechkin (surname) explained

Ovechkin (ru|Овечкин, from овечка meaning little sheep)^[1] is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Ovechkina. People with the name include:

People

• Alexander Ovechkin (born 1985), Russian professional ice hockey winger
• Artem Ovechkin (born 1986), Russian road bicycle racer
• Mariya Ovechkina (born 1991), Russian beauty pageant contestant
• Nadezhda Ovechkina (born 1958), Russian field hockey player
• Tatyana Ovechkina (born 1950), Russian basketball player
• Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968), Soviet writer, playwright, and journalist

Fictional characters

• Captain Ovechkin, an antagonist in Keosayan's Elusive Avengers film series who first appeared in The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers

See also

• The Ovechkin family which hijacked Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988) in a failed attempt to escape the Soviet Union

• 257261 Ovechkin, an asteroid named for Alexander Ovechkin

Notes and References

1. Ganzhina, I. M. (2001) Словарь современных русских фамилий. Moscow: Astrel. .