Novikov

Novikov, Novikoff (masculine) or Novikova (feminine) is one of the most common Russian surnames. Derived from novik - a teenager on military service who comes from a noble, boyar or cossack family in Russia of 16th-18th centuries. It may refer to:

• Alexei Novikov (1916–1986), a Soviet pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexey Novikov (painter)( b. 1931), a Russian painter
• Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877–1944), a Russian writer
• Alexander Novikov (1900–1976), a Russian Marshal of Aviation, Double Hero of the Soviet Union
• Alexander Vasilievich Novikov (1953–) (Новиков, Александр Васильевич) - singer\songwriter
• Anatoliy Novikov, (b. 1947), a Ukrainian judoka
• Anatoly Novikov (composer) (1896–1984), a Russian composer
• Andrey Novikov (1889–1941), a Russian writer
• Arkady Novikov (b. 1962), a Russian restaurateur
• Boris Novikov (1909–1989), a Russian sportsman and trainer
• Boris Novikov (1925–1997), Soviet actor
• Dmitry Novikov (b. 1939), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Evgeny Novikov (b. 1990), a Russian rally driver
• Ignatiy Novikov (1907–?), a Soviet statesman
• Igor Novikov (painter)( b. 1961), a Swiss-Russian painter Soviet Nonconformist Art, Switzerland
• Igor Novikov (chess player) (b. 1962), a Ukrainian then U.S. chess master
• Igor Alexandrovich Novikov (1929–2007), a Russian sportsman and trainer; former biathlon champion
• Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (b. 1935), a Russian theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
  • Novikov self-consistency principle, a principle to solve the problems of paradoxes in time travel, developed by him
• Ilya Novikov, (b. 1982), a Russian jurist
• Ivan Novikov (1879–?), a Russian novelist, playwright, and poet
• Ivan Alexeyevich Novikov (1877–1959), a Russian writer
• Ivan Ivanovich Novikov (b. 1916), a Russian scientist
• Ivan Novikoff (1899–2002), a Russian born ballet master
• Jevgeni Novikov (b. 1980), an Estonian footballer
• Konstantin Novikov (1919–1958), a Soviet pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Laurent Novikoff (1888-1956)
• Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov (1903-1989), Soviet ambassador to the United States
• Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov (1744–1818), a Russian writer and philanthropist
• Nikolay Vasilyevich Novikov (1880–1957), a Russian historian
• Oleg Novikov, ((b. 1968) general director of Eksmo
• Olga Novikoff (1840s - 21 April 1925) was a Russian author and patriot.
• Pyotr Novikov (1901–1975), a Russian mathematician
• Sergei Novikov (mathematician) (b. 1938), a Russian mathematician, son of Pyotr
  • Novikov conjecture, an unsolved problem in topology named for him
• Sergei Borisovich Novikov (b. 1961), a Soviet footballer
• Sergei Valentinovich Novikov (b. 1979), a Belarusian biathlonist
• Vasily Loginovich Novikov (1915–1941), a Soviet pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Vasily Mikhailovich Novikov (1910–1979), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Viktor Novikov (1913–1941), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Vitali Novikov, Russian ice dancer.
• Vladimir Mikhaylovich Novikov (1907–1990), a Russian poet
• Vladimir Novikov (1907–2000), a Soviet statesman
• Vladimir Stepanovich Novikov (b. 1922), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Yegor Novikov (1915–1941), a Soviet pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Yuri Novikov (b. 1972), Kazakh footballer
• Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer