Chertkov, Chertkoff or Tchertkoff (russian: Чертков) is a Russian masculine originating from the word
chort
A chort (Russian: чёрт, Belarusian and Ukrainian: чорт, Serbo-Croatian ''čort'' or ''črt'', Polish: ''czort'' and ''czart'', Czech and Slovak: ''čert'', Slovene: ''črt'') is an anthropomorphic malign spirit or demon in Slavic fol ...
, meaning ''devil'', ''demon''.
[ Its feminine counterpart is Chertkova. The surname may refer to the following notable people:
*]Anatoly Chertkov
Anatoly Chertkov (russian: Анато́лий Его́рович Чертко́в; 17 July 1936 in Tula Oblast – 22 October 2014 in Rostov-on-Don) was a Russian midfield footballer. He was a Master of Sports of the USSR.
Biography
He deb ...
(1936–2014), Russian football midfielder
*Fenia Chertkoff
Fenia Chertkoff de Repetto (7 October 1869 – 31 May 1927) was a Russian-born Argentine feminist, intellectual, educator, political activist, and sculptor. She was married to Nicolás Repetto, an Argentine physician and leader of the Socialist ...
(1869–1927), Russian-Argentinean feminist, educator, political activist and sculptor
*Vladimir Chertkov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov (russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Чертко́в; also transliterated as Chertkoff, Tchertkoff, or Tschertkow ( – November 9, 1936) was the editor of the works of Leo Tolstoy, and one of the mo ...
(1854–1936), Russian editor of the works of Leo Tolstoy
*Wladimir Tchertkoff
Wladimir Tchertkoff is an Italian journalist.
He released with Emanuela Andreoli in 2003 the film ''The Sacrifice'', a documentary on the liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This film received an award from the Île-de-France counc ...
, Italian journalist
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Russian-language surnames