Putin (surname)

Putin (Template:Lang-ru) is a masculine Russian surname. Its feminine counterpart is Putina (Template:Lang-ru).

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 73.8% of all known bearers of the surname Putin were residents of Russia (frequency 1:22,479), 6.5% of Uzbekistan (1:54,530), 2.5% of Tajikistan (1:38,622), 2.4% of France (1:313,715), 2.2% of Belarus (1:50,006), 1.7% of Kazakhstan (1:118,628), 1.3% of Moldova (1:32,673), 1.2% of Romania (1:191,218), 1.1% of Ukraine (1:465,553) and 1.1% of India (1:8,160,269).

In Russia, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:22,479) in the following subjects of the Russian Federation:

• 1. Perm Krai (1:3,181)
• 2. Altai Republic (1:4,161)
• 3. Moscow (1:7,200)
• 4. Saint Petersburg (1:10,861)
• 5. North Ossetia-Alania (1:14,563)
• 6. Astrakhan Oblast (1:14,649)
• 7. Novosibirsk Oblast (1:15,626)
• 8. Irkutsk Oblast (1:17,411)
• 9. Kaliningrad Oblast (1:18,825)
• 10. Novgorod Oblast (1:19,510)
• 11. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (1:20,672)
• 12. Saratov Oblast (1:21,599)

People

• Vladimir Putin (born 1952), President of Russia from 2000 to 2008 and from 2012–present, and Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and 2008 to 2012
  • Vladimir Putin Peak, a mountain in Kyrgyzstan
  • Putin's Palace, a palace in Krasnodar Krai, Russia
  • Putin's Plan, the political and economic program of Vladimir Putin
  • Putin must go, a Russian website and public campaign against Vladimir Putin
  • Putin khuilo, a Ukrainian song deriding Vladimir Putin
  • Direct Line with Vladimir Putin, an annual Russian television program, a live Q&A broadcast with Vladimir Putin
  • Putin's Progress, a 2004 book by Peter Truscott
  • Putin's Russia, a 2004 book by Anna Politkovskaya
  • Putin, Russia and the West, a 2012 British documentary television series
  • Putin's Kiss, a 2012 documentary about Russian youth activist Masha Drokova
  • Pussy versus Putin, a 2013 Russian documentary film about the Russian feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot
• Igor Putin (born 1953), a Russian businessman and politician, and cousin of Vladimir Putin
• Roman Putin (born 1977), a Russian businessman and politician, and nephew of Vladimir Putin
• Lyudmila Putina (born 1958), the former wife of Vladimir Putin
• Vera Putina (born 1926), a woman who claims to be Vladimir Putin's mother
• P. T. Narasimhachar (1905–1998), a Kannada Indian poet commonly known as "Pu Ti Na" or "Putina"

Fictional people

• Ivan Putin