Vlasov

Vlasov or Vlasoff (Russian: Вла́сов; masculine) is a common Russian surname formed from the first name Vlas or from the Greek Βλάσιος (Blaise) meaning simple.^[1][2][3] There is also a version that the family name can come from the Slavonic vlas meaning hair.^[1] According to some versions the surname correlates to the Slavonic god Veles. The feminine form of the surname is Vlasova (Russian: Вла́сова). The surname is shared by:

• Aleksandr Vlasov (disambiguation)
• Andrey Vlasov (1901–1946), Russian general of Red Army who later collaborated with Nazis by leading the Russian Liberation Army against the Soviet Union
• Andrey Vlasov (footballer, born 1965), Russian football player
• Anatoly Vlasov (1908–1975), Soviet physicist, author of the Vlasov equation and McKean–Vlasov process
• Dmitri Vlasov (born 1973), Russian football player
• Dmitry Vlasov (born 1982), Russian tennis player
• Evgenia Vlasova (born 1978), Ukrainian singer-songwriter
• Ilia Vlasov (born 1995), Russian volleyball player
• Ivan Vlasov (1903–1969), Soviet administrator, nominal head of state of Russian Federation
• Maxim Vlasov (born 1986), Russian boxer
• Nikolai Vlasov (1916–1945), flying ace and leader of prisoner uprising in the Mauthausen concentration camp
• Oleg Vlasov (born 1984), Russian footballer
• Oleh Vlasov (born 2002), Ukrainian footballer
• Olesia Vlasova (born 1974), Ukrainian actress
• Peter Vladimirov, pen name of Pyotr Vlasov (1905–1953), Soviet diplomat and journalist, father of Yury Vlasov
• Pavel Vlasov (born 1960), merited test pilot of the Russian Federation
• Simon Vlasov (born 1981), Russian speedway rider
• Tatiana Vlasova (born 1977), Russian ski-orienteer
• Vadim Vlasov (born 1980), Russian football player
• Valentin Vlasov (1946–2020), Russian politician and diplomat
• Veronika Vlasova (born 1966), Russian politician
• Viktor Vlasov (disambiguation)
• Vladimir Vlasov (1902–1986), Russian composer and conductor
• Yuliya Vlasova (born 1967), Russian short track speed skater
• Yuri Vlasov