Veniamin Explained

Veniamin (Russian: Вениамин) is the Russian version of the name Benjamin, and may refer to:

• Veniamin Alexandrov (1937–1991), Soviet professional ice hockey player
• Veniamin Belkin (1884–1951), Russian artist and painter
• Veniamin Fleishman, (1913–1941), Russian composer
• Veniamin Kagan (1869–1953), Russian mathematician and expert in geometry
• Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989), Soviet writer associated with the early 1920s movement of the Serapion Brothers
• Veniamin (Kazansky) (1873–1922), bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Petrograd 1917–1922
• Veniamin Kondratyev (born 1970), Russian politician and governor of Krasnodar Krai
• Veniamin Levich (1917–1987), physicist, an expert in the field of electrochemical hydrodynamics
• Veniamin Mandrykin (born 1981), Russian professional football goalkeeper
• Veniamin of Petersburg (1874–1922), Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov 1917–1922
• Veniamin Smekhov (born 1940), Russian actor and stage director
• Veniamin Soldatenko (born 1939), former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk
• Veniamin Tayanovich (born 1967), retired Russian freestyle swimmer

As a last name:

• Andrew Veniamin (1975–2004), Australian criminal, a suspected mass murderer and drug dealer