Pokrovsky
Appearance
Pokrovsky, also spelled Pokrovski and Pokrovskii (Russian: Покровский), or Pokrovskaya (feminine; Покровская) is a Slavic last name. Its form in neuter is Pokrovskoye. It may refer to:
People
[edit]- Alexander Pokrovsky (1898–1979), Soviet military leader
- Anatoly Pokrovsky (1930–2022), Russian vascular surgeon
- Boris Pokrovsky (1912–2009), former chief director of the Bolshoi Theater and founder of the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater
- Dmitri Pokrovsky (1944–1996), Russian musician
- Georgy Pokrovsky (1901–1979), Soviet physicist
- Igor Pokrovsky (1926–2002), Soviet architect
- Ksenia Pokrovsky (1942–2013), Russian-American icon painter
- Konstantin Pokrovsky (1868–1944), Russian and Ukrainian astronomer
- Maksim Pokrovsky (born 1968), Russian musician
- Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (1868–1932), Soviet historian and academic
- Mikhail Pokrovsky (linguist) (1869–1942), Russian/Soviet linguist, literary critic, and academic
- Nikolai Pokrovsky (1865–1930), last foreign minister of the Russian Empire
- Nikolai Pokrovsky (actor) (1896–1961), Soviet actor, theater director, and People's Artist of the USSR
- Valery Pokrovsky (born 1931), Russian physicist
- Victor Pokrovsky (1897–1990), Russian choir director, translator, and music arranger
- Viktor Pokrovsky (1889–1922), Russian lieutenant general
- Vladimir Pokrovsky (architect) (1871–1931?), Russian architect
- Vladimir Pokrovsky (pilot) (1918–1998), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
Places
[edit]- Pokrovsky District, a district of Oryol Oblast, Russia
- Pokrovsky, Russia (Pokrovskaya, Pokrovskoye), name of several inhabited localities in Russia
- Pokrovskoye, former name of the village of Qaratəpə, Azerbaijan
Other
[edit]- Pokrovsky Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, in Red Square, Moscow
- Pokrovsky Monastery (Moscow), a male monastery in Moscow, Russia
- Pokrovsky Monastery (Suzdal), a female monastery in Suzdal, Russia
- The Pokrovsky Gate, a 1982 Soviet comedy film
See also
[edit]- Pokrovsk (disambiguation)
- Novopokrovsky
- Pokrovka (disambiguation)
- Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, one of the lines of the Moscow Metro