Pokrovsky

Pokrovsky, also spelled Pokrovski and Pokrovskii (Russian: Покровский), or Pokrovskaya (feminine; Покровская) is a Slavic last name. Its form in neuter is Pokrovskoye. It may refer to:

People

• Alexander Pokrovsky (1898–1979), Soviet military leader
• Anatoly Pokrovsky (born 1930), Russian vascular surgeon
• Boris Pokrovsky (1912–2009), former chief director of the Bolshoi Theater and founder of the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater
• Dmitri Pokrovsky (1944–1996), Russian musician
• Georgy Pokrovsky (1901–1979), Soviet physicist
• Igor Pokrovsky (1926–2002), Soviet architect
• Ksenia Pokrovsky (1942–2013), Russian-American icon painter
• Konstantin Pokrovsky(1868–1944), Russian and Ukrainian astronomer
• Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (1868–1932), Soviet historian and academic
• Mikhail Pokrovsky (linguist) (1869–1942), Russian/Soviet linguist, literary critic, and academic
• Nikolai Pokrovsky (1865–1930), last foreign minister of the Russian Empire
• Nikolai Pokrovsky (actor) (1896–1961), Soviet actor, theater director, and People's Artist of the USSR
• Valery Pokrovsky (born 1931), Russian physicist
• Viktor Pokrovsky (1889–1922), Russian lieutenant general
• Vladimir Pokrovsky (architect) (1871–1931?), Russian architect
• Vladimir Pokrovsky (pilot) (1918–1998), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union

Places

• Pokrovsky District, a district of Oryol Oblast, Russia
• Pokrovsky, Russia (Pokrovskaya, Pokrovskoye), name of several inhabited localities in Russia
• Pokrovskoye, former name of the village of Qaratəpə, Azerbaijan

Other

• Pokrovsky Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, in Red Square, Moscow
• Pokrovsky Monastery (Moscow), a male monastery in Moscow, Russia
• Pokrovsky Monastery (Suzdal), a female monastery in Suzdal, Russia
• The Pokrovsky Gate, a 1982 Soviet comedy film

See also

• Pokrovsk
• Novopokrovsky
• Pokrovka (disambiguation)
• Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line, one of the lines of the Moscow Metro