Pugachev (surname) explained

Pugachev/Pugachyov/Pugachov (feminine:Pugacheva/Pugachyova/Pugachova) is a Russian surname, ru|Пугачёв/Пугачёва, commonly ritten without diacritics: ru|Пугачев/Пугачева. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alla Pugacheva (born 1949), Russian musical performer
• Yemelyan Pugachev (c. 1742–1775), leader of the Cossack insurrection in Russia
• Sergei Pugachev (born 1963), Russian politician
• (1878–1934), Jewish Zionist educator active in Warsaw, Moscow, Berlin, and Palestine
• Viktor Pugachev (born 1948), Russian test pilot