pokrovsky

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Pokrovsky, also spelled Pokrovski and Pokrovskii ({{langx|ru|Покровский|link=no}}), or Pokrovskaya (feminine; Покровская) is a Russian clerical surname derived from Pokrov,Boris Unbegaun, Русские фамилии,[https://archive.org/details/russiansurnames/page/n171/mode/2up p. 172] either from the feast of {{lang|ru|Покров Пресвятой Богородицы}} (Intercession of the Theotokos) or from any of Porkov churches or monasteries.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Pokrovsky (1898–1979), Soviet military leader
• Anatoly Pokrovsky (1930–2022), 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
• Maksim Pokrovsky (born 1968), Russian musician
• 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
• Victor Pokrovsky (1897–1990), Russian choir director, translator, and music arranger
• 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