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Balabanov

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Balabanov (Balaban, Balabanoff, Ballabon, etc.) and their derivatives (-ovs, -ich, etc.) are common last names in Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia.

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Prominent Balabanovs

  • Aleksei Balabanov (1959-2013), a Russian filmmaker
  • Andrey Balabanov, Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer
  • Angelica Balabanov (1878-1965), a Russian-Italian Marxist revolutionary, Comintern secretary in 1919-1921
  • Kostantyn Balabanov (b. 1982), a Ukrainian football player
  • Stefan Balabanov (born 1996), Russian football player
  • Vadim Balabanov (born 1988), Russian football player
  • Vasile Balabanov (1873-1947), a Provincial Administrator of Imperial Russia

    • Origins of the name

    Possible origins of the name according to Dr. 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 Persians 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 may have taken over this name and given it to the relatively tall non-Muslim men from their territories.

    References

    Balabanov Wikipedia
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