Kalinin (surname)

Kalinin (Russian: Кали́нин [kɐˈlinin]), or Kalinina (feminine; Кали́нина [kɐˈlininə]), is a Russian surname, derived from the word kalina (калина, meaning "guelder rose") or name Kalinik (greek: Καλλίνικος). Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexey Kalinin (1922–1943), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Dmitri Kalinin (born 1980), Russian hockey player
• Ekaterina Kalinina (1882–1960), First Lady of the Soviet Union (1922–1946)
• Fedor Kalinin, (1882–1920) Russian Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician
• Ganna Kalinina (born 1979), Ukrainian Olympic sailor
• Irina Kalinina (born 1959), Soviet diver
• Igor Kalinin (born 1959), Ukrainian politician
• Ihor Kalinin (born 1995), Ukrainian footballer
• Konstantin Kalinin (1889–1940), Soviet aircraft designer
• Ludmila Kalinina, skating coach
• Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946), Russian Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946
• Natalia Kalinina (born 1973), Soviet gymnast
• Sergei Kalinin – several people
• Yana Kalinina, Ukrainian footballer
• Vladislava Kalinina (born 1980), Ukrainian chess player
• Viktor Valrianovich Kalinin (born 1886) , Russian nobleman actual state counselor of Kursk