Baltacha (russian: Балтача) is a family name of
Tatar origin, derived from the
Turkic
Turkic may refer to:
* anything related to the country of Turkey
* Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages
** Turkic alphabets (disambiguation)
** Turkish language, the most widely spoken Turkic language
* ...
word
baltacı, meaning "a person skilled with an axe", from ''
balta
Balta may refer to:
People
* Balta (footballer) (born 1962), Spanish footballer and manager
* Balta (surname)
Places
* Balta (crater), on Mars
* Balta, Mehedinți, Romania
*Bâlta, a village in Filiași, Dolj County, Romania
*Bâlta, a village ...
'': "axe", i.e., "woodcutter" or "
halberdier".
Coat of the arms
of the Baltasinsky District
Baltasinsky District (russian: Балтаси́нский райо́н; tt-Cyrl, Балтач районы, ''Baltaç rayonı'') is a territorial administrative unit and municipality of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The ...
Notable people with the surname include:
* Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha (born 1958), the former USSR football player, Dynamo Kyiv
* Sergei Baltacha Jr. (born 1979), son of Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha, football player
* Elena Baltacha (1983–2014), daughter of Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha, tennis player
See also
* Baltacı (disambiguation)
References
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Occupational surnames
Turkic-language surnames
Surnames of Tatar origin