Yelagin (surname)
# Yelagin (surname)

Yelagin or Elagin (feminine: Yelagina, Elagina) is a Russian-language surname. It may refer to:

* Yelagin family [ru], Russian noble family
* Ekaterina Elagina, geologist, discoverer of the deposits of the Mir diamond mine
* Ivan Elagin (poet) (1918–1987), Russuan Emigre poet
* Ivan Yelagin (1725–1794), Russian historian and poet, unofficial secretary to Catherine the Great
* Ivan Oleksandrovych Yelagin [uk] (1934–2007), Ukrainian poet
* Nikolay Elagin [ru] (1817–1891), Russian writer and notorious censor
* Olga Elagin, poet Olga Anstei
* Vasily Igorevich Yelagin, Russian mountaineer and explorer
* Vasily Ivanovich Yelagin [ru] (1743–?), Russian general
* Vladimir Yelagin (born 1955), Russian politician

## Fictional characters

* Yelagin, the protagonist of Ivan Bunin's novella Case of Cornet Yelagin (Дело корнета Елагина)
