Preobrazhensky (surname) explained

Preobrazhensky (Russian: Преображенский) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Preobrazhenskaya. It may refer to

• Alexander Preobrazhensky, Russian pedagogue
• Boris Preobrazhensky, Soviet otolaryngologist and academician, Hero of Socialist Labor
• Konstantin Preobrazhensky, writer on KGB subjects
• Mikhail Preobrazhensky, architect
• Nikolay Preobrazhensky, Soviet otolaryngologist
• Olga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet
• Olga Preobrazhenskaya (director) (1881–1971), Russian and Soviet actress and film director
• Pavel Preobrazhensky, Russian geologist
• Sofiya Preobrazhenskaya, Russian opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR
• Vasily Khrisanfovich Preobrazhensky, Russian writer
• Vasily Petrovich Preobrazhensky, Russian writer
• Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, (1886–1937) Bolshevik and economist
• Yevgeny Nikolayevich Preobrazhensky, Soviet military leader

Fictional characters

• Professor Preobrazhensky, surgeon, from the novel Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov