Balabanov (Balaban, Balabanoff, Ballabon, etc.) and their derivatives (-ovs, -ich, etc.) are common last names in
North Macedonia
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Serbia
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Bulgaria
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Ukraine
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and
Russia
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. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aleksei Balabanov
Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (russian: Алeксeй Oктябpинoвич Балабанoв; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, a member of European Film Academy. He started from c ...
(1959-2013), Russian filmmaker
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Andrey Balabanov
Andrey Balabanov (born 17 August 1966 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1990s. He won three bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two in the C-2 10000 ...
, Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer
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Angelica Balabanov
, image = Brodskiy II Balabanova.jpg
, birth_name = Anzhelika Isaakovna Balabanova
, birth_date = August 4, 1878
, birth_place = Chernihiv, Ukraine
, death_date =
, death_place = Rome, Ital ...
(1878-1965), Russian-Italian Marxist revolutionary, Comintern secretary in 1919-1921
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Kostantyn Balabanov (born 1982), Ukrainian football player
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Vasile Balabanov
Vasily Vasilyevich Balabanov (russian: link=no, Василий Васильевич Балабанов; 30 January 1873 – 27 January 1947) was a former governor of Turkestan in Imperial Russia, a governor of Semirechye, an SR and a commissa ...
(1873-1947), provincial administrator of Imperial Russia
Origins of the name
Possible origins of the name according to Tudor Balabanov:
:1. in the
Kazakh Mountains there is an eagle called Balaban from which the name may be derived.
:2. One of the recipients of this name may have been the
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
s that around 4000 years ago started naming the leading three soldiers of a battalion, namely: the one with the flag, those with a drum, and the one with a blow instrument - the Balabans.
:3. The
Turks
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Communities and ethnic groups
* Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages
* Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
* Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic o ...
may have taken over this name and given it to the relatively tall non-Muslim men from their territories.
See also
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Balaban (disambiguation)
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Ballabon
{{surname, Balabanov (f.
Balabanova),
Balabanoff,
Balabanof, etc.
Slavic-language surnames
Bulgarian-language surnames