Koshkin is a
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
surname, which means "
cat
The cat (''Felis catus'') is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from the wild members of ...
" or cat owner", from the Russian word ''koshka'' or "cat".
[Mikheev, Alexey]
"What Russian Surnames Mean"
''Russia & India Report'', Moscow, 25 May 2014. Retrieved on 7 January 2016. An alternative spelling is Koshkyn, and a name with the same meaning is
Kotov. The name Koshkin may refer to:
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Koshkin (born 1941), Russian football player
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Aleksandr Koshkyn (1959– 2012), Russian boxer
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Dmitriy Koshkin (born 1986), Kazakh skier
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Ivan Fyodorovich Koshkin Ivan Fyodorovich Koshkin (died 1427) was a boyar and Voivode at the court of Vasily I and Vasily II. He was a son of Fedor Andreevich Kobylin and a progenitor of the Romanov dynasty.
He had four sons: Ivan Ivanovich Koshkin, Fedor Ivanovich Ko ...
(died 1427), Russian nobleman
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Mikhail Koshkin (1898–1940), Russia tank designer
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Nikita Koshkin (born 1956), Russian classical guitarist and composer
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Zakhary Ivanovich Koshkin Zakhary Ivanovich Koshkin (died 1461) was a boyar at the court of Vasili II. He was a male-line forefather of the Romanov family, and the first Romanov Tsar, Michael I of Russia, was his agnatic descendant.
Koshkin was the son of Ivan Fyodorovich ...
(died 1461), Russian nobleman
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Russian-language surnames