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Galkin
Galkin (masculine, russian: Галкин) or Galkina (feminine, russian: Галкина) is a Russian surname. It is derived from ''Galka'' (russian: галка, jackdaw) Notable people with the surname include: * Aleksey Galkin, Russian GRU officer * Aleksandr Galkin (1948–2018), Russian football coach and former football player * Aleksandr Galkin (born 1979), Russian chess grandmaster * Evgeni Galkin (born 1975), Russian professional ice hockey winger * Maxim Galkin (born 1976), Russian comedian, singer, and TV host * Pavel Galkin (born 1968), Russian sprinter * Pavel Andreyevich Galkin (1922–2021), Soviet military pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union * Vladislav Galkin (1971–2010), Russian actor Galkina * Gulnara Samitova-Galkina (born 1978), Russian middle-distance runner * Katsiaryna Halkina (born 1997), Belarusian rhythmic gymnast * Lyubov Galkina (born 1973), Russian sport shooter * Lyudmila Galkina Lyudmila Ivanovna Galkina (russian: Людмила Ивановн ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Galkina
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Galkina (russian: Екатери́на Влади́мировна Га́лкина; born 10 August 1988 in Moscow) is a Russian curler. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, in Turin, Italy, she was part of Ludmila Privivkova's team. A year later this team won the 2006 European Curling Championships. She has studied Management and International Relations at the Russian State University for the Humanities. In January 2010 Galkina was officially named to the Russian Olympic Team. She and her teammates represented Russia at the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship held in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, from 15 to 23 March. The team had an 8-3 record in the round robin and was seeded third in the playoffs. Team Russia lost the 3-4 Page playoff game to Team Korea, but later defeated Team Korea to win the bronze medal. It was the first medal for Russia in the world women's curling championships. The team also competed for Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksey Galkin
Alexey Viktorovich Galkin (russian: Алексей Викторович Галкин) is a Russian former GRU officer. A senior lieutenant of the GRU, Alexei Galkin said, whilst being tortured by Chechen separatists, commanded by Abu Movsaev, that the apartment bombing in Buynaksk were organized by a team of twelve GRU officers and ordered by GRU director Valentin Korabelnikov“Our Group Prepared Diversions in Chechnya and Dagestan”, Testimony of Senior Lieutenant Alexei Galkin, November 1999 .O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Andreyevich Galkin
Pavel Andreyevich Galkin (russian: Павел Андреевич Галкин; 15 December 1922 – 15 June 2021) was an officer of the Soviet Armed Forces, Soviet military who held a number of posts in Soviet Naval Aviation, reaching the rank of Colonel (Eastern Europe), colonel. A veteran of the Second World War, he was a recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Galkin entered the armed forces in 1940, shortly before the Operation Barbarossa, Axis invasion of the Soviet Union the following year, and was initially assigned to the Soviet Navy as an anti-aircraft battery gunner with the coastal defence forces. Following the outbreak of war he studied at the Nikolaev Naval Aviation School, graduating in July 1943, as a navigator#In aviation, crew navigator and was sent to the front lines. Initially assigned to the 29th Bomber Aviation Regiment at Murmansk as part of the Northern Fleet, flying the Petlyakov Pe-2, Galkin was subsequently transferred to the 9th Guards Torp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Galkin
Maxim Alexandrovich Galkin (russian: Максим Алeксандpoвич Галкин; born 18 June 1976) is a Russian comedian, television presenter and singer. Galkin left Russia in March 2022 following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion of Ukraine and was subsequently listed as a foreign agent by the Government of Russia, Russian government. Biography He first became famous as an impersonator and is known for his talent at parody and his duets with the famous Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva and Ani Lorak. Galkin was the host of the Kto khochet stat' millionerom?, Russian version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' before 2009. In 2010, Galkin was one of the few comedians performing an impression, albeit 'light-hearted', of President Vladimir Putin, on Russia's Channel One TV channel. After November 2016 he hosted a children's talent show on TV "Best of all", and did so at least until mid-2017. Personal life Galkin is Jewish, from his mother's sid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Galkin (chess Player)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Galkin (russian: Александр Александрович Галкин; born 1 February 1979) is a Russian chess player. Born in Rostov-on-Don, he was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997. Chess career Galkin won the 1999 World Junior Chess Championship. This victory qualified him for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000. Here he defeated Aleksandar Wohl in the first round and then lost to Alexander Beliavsky in the second, thus exiting the competition. Galkin competed in the FIDE World Championship again in 2004; this time he was eliminated in the first round by Aleksander Delchev. Three year later, Galkin participated in the FIDE World Cup; here he defeated Mateusz Bartel in round one and lost to Vassily Ivanchuk Vasyl Mykhaylovych Ivanchuk ( uk, Василь Михайлович Іванчук; born March 18, 1969), also transliterated as Vassily Ivanchuk, is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladislav Galkin
Vladislav Borisovich Galkin (russian: Владисла́в Бори́сович Га́лкин; 25 December 1971 – 25 February 2010) was a Russian actor who starred in fifty seven films including several TV serials, such as ''Spetsnaz'' (2002), ''The Master and Margarita'' (2005–2006) and ''Dikari'' (2006). Biography Galkin studied acting at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute from 1988 to 1992, then studied film directing at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in the 1990 where his teacher was Vladimir Khotinenko. On 27 February 2010, Galkin was found dead in his apartment, and the cause of death was said to be cardiac arrest. However, according to his family and friends, he was murdered based on evidence indicating the presence of other people in his room just before his death and the disappearance of $130,000 from his apartment. The police dismissed this version. Galkin's death was mourned by many who demanded finding those responsible for his death. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulnara Samitova-Galkina
Gulnara Iskanderovna Samitova-Galkina (russian: Гульнара Искандеровна Самитова-Галкина, tt-Cyrl, Гөлнара Искәндәр кызы Самитова-Галкина) (born 9 July 1978 in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan) is a Russian distance runner. In July 2004 she ran 3000 metres steeplechase in a new world record of 9:01.59 minutes. Early that year she won a bronze medal over 1500 metres at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Gulnara Samitova-Galkina is of mixed Tatar and Russian origin. She is a two-time national champion in the women's 5000 metres. Samitova claimed the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in the 3000 m steeplechase, breaking her own world record in the final with a time of 8:58.81 min, becoming the first woman in history to run under 9 minutes for the steeplechase. She won both the 800 and 1500 metres races at the Russian Team Championships in June 2009, clocking a personal best of 2:00.29 in the 800 m and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Galkin (footballer)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Galkin (russian: Александр Иванович Галкин; 4 September 1948 – 4 November 2018) was a Russian professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... player and coach. External links Career summary by KLISF 1948 births 2018 deaths Soviet men's footballers Soviet football managers Russian football managers Men's association football defenders FC Avangard Kursk players {{Russia-footy-defender-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeni Galkin
Evgeni Vladimirovich Galkin (russian: Евгений Владимирович Галкин; born 27 November 1975, in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Career statistics References External links * * 1975 births Living people Russian ice hockey right wingers Ice hockey people from Chelyabinsk Chelmet Chelyabinsk players Metallurg Magnitogorsk players Molot-Prikamye Perm players Traktor Chelyabinsk players Yuzhny Ural Orsk players {{Russia-icehockey-winger-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Galkin
Pavel Stanislavovich Galkin (russian: Павел Станиславович Галкин; born 9 October 1968) is a retired Russian athlete who specialised in the sprinting events. He competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as .... His personal best in the 100 metres is 10.20 set in 1994. Competition record References 1968 births Living people Russian male sprinters Soviet male sprinters Olympic athletes for the Unified Team Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsiaryna Halkina
Katsiaryna Aliaksandraŭna Halkina ( be, Кацярына Аляксандраўна Галкіна; russian: Екатерина Александровна Галкина; born 25 February 1997) is a retired Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2018 European all-around bronze medalist. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, and finished 6th in the all-around final. Personal life Halkina had heart surgery in 2011 and missed 12 months of competition. She announced her retirement from rhythmic gymnastics in June 2021. On 11 October 2021, she announced to fans via her Instagram account that she had moved to Moscow to begin a master's degree program at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. She is employed by the Embassy of Belarus in Moscow as of 2021. Career Junior Halkina began competing in the junior international scene in 2009, she won many medals as a junior, at the 2010 Pesaro Junior World Cup where she won gold in ball, hoop and si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Galkina
Lioubov Galkina (russian: Любовь Галкина) (born 15 March 1973 in Alapayevsk, Russian SFSR) is a Russian sport shooter and Olympic champion. She received two medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Shooting" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 17, 2008) Olympic results Records References 197 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
