Sorokin
Sorokin (Russian: Соро́кин), or Sorokina (feminine; Соро́кина), is a common Russian surname, derived from the Russian word soroka (сорока, or magpie). Those bearing it include the following:
- Aleksei Sorokin, Estonian politician
- Alexey Sorokin (fashion designer), fashion designer
- Alexey Sorokin (military commander), Admiral and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Anastasia Sorokina, Belarusian/Australian chess Woman International Master
- Anna Sorokin, Russian fraud perpetrator
- Coti Sorokin, Argentine singer-songwriter
- Evgraf Sorokin, painter
- Ilya Sorokin, NHL goalie under contract with the New York Islanders
- Irina Sorokina, Russian-Norwegian laser physicist
- Ivan Sorokin, Russian commander during the Russian Civil War
- Maxim Sorokin, Russian chess player (grandmaster)
- Nikolai Sorokin, Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, People's Artist of Russia
- Pavel Sorokin (painter), painter
- Peter P. Sorokin, an American physicist, co-inventor of the dye laser
- Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist
- Pyotr Sorokin, a Russian international soccer player
- Stanislav Sorokin (boxer), a Soviet boxer
- Stanislav Sorokin (footballer), Ukrainian football player
- Vasili Sorokin, mosaics artist
- Vitali Sorokin, swimmer
- Vladimir Sorokin, writer
- Zakhar Sorokin, Soviet military officer and declared Hero of the Soviet Union
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