Pokrovsky
Pokrovsky, also spelled Pokrovski and Pokrovskii, or Pokrovskaya is a Russian clerical surname derived from Pokrov, either from the feast of Покров Пресвятой Богородицы or from any of Porkov churches or monasteries.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Pokrovsky, Soviet military leader
- Anatoly Pokrovsky, Russian vascular surgeon
- Boris Pokrovsky, former chief director of the Bolshoi Theater and founder of the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater
- Dmitri Pokrovsky, Russian musician
- Georgy Pokrovsky, Soviet physicist
- Igor Pokrovsky, Soviet architect
- Ksenia Pokrovsky, Russian-American icon painter
- Konstantin Pokrovsky, Russian and Ukrainian astronomer
- Maksim Pokrovsky, Russian musician
- Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky, Soviet historian and academic
- Mikhail Pokrovsky (linguist), Russian/Soviet linguist, literary critic, and academic
- Nikolai Pokrovsky, last foreign minister of the Russian Empire
- Nikolai Pokrovsky (actor), Soviet actor, theater director, and People's Artist of the USSR
- Valery Pokrovsky, Russian physicist
- Victor Pokrovsky, Russian choir director, translator, and music arranger
- Viktor Pokrovsky, Russian lieutenant general
- Vladimir Pokrovsky (architect), Russian architect
- Vladimir Pokrovsky (pilot), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union