BLOKHIN
In ancient times, our ancestors gave each other names and nicknames, aptly emphasizing a certain character trait, be it a virtue, for example, Truth, or a flaw: Thunderstorm - hot temper, Flea - annoying harmful man. From these nicknames the surnames Blokha, Blokhin, Blokhintsev, Bloshkin, Voshka, Voshkin, Groza, Groznin, Groznov, Grozny, Grozov, Pravda, Pravdivtsev, Pravdin appeared. Yustov should be considered Pravdin’s “namesake”, since this is a direct translation into Latin of this surname - for euphony, as was believed in the seminaries, where they were engaged in similar word creation.
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- BLOKHIN in the Encyclopedia of Russian surnames, secrets of origin and meanings:
In ancient times, our ancestors gave each other names and nicknames, aptly emphasizing a certain character trait, be it a virtue, for example, Truth, or a flaw: ... - BLOKHIN
BLOKHIN Oleg Vl. (b. 1952), Ukrainian athlete, sportsman (1975). Forward of the Dynamo team (Kyiv, 1972-87). The best football player in Europe (1975). Cup winner... - BLOKHIN in the Big Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary:
BLOKHIN Nick. Nick. (1912-93), oncologist surgeon, academician. (1960) and Pres. (1960-68, 1977-87) Academy of Medical Sciences, acad. RAS (1979), Hero of Social. Labor (1972). Offered … - BLOKHIN in the Modern Explanatory Dictionary, TSB:
Alexey Alexandrovich (1897-1942), Russian petroleum geologist, professor (1937). Conducted geological research on the Kerch Peninsula, the western slope of the Urals and in the Urals. ... - BLOKHIN OLEG VLADIMIROVICH
(b. 1952) Ukrainian athlete, Honored Master of Sports (1975). The best football player in Europe (1975). Winner of the Cup Winners' Cup European countries(1975, 1986) and... - BLOKHIN NIKOLAY NIKOLAEVICH in the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary:
(1912-93) Russian oncologist surgeon, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991; academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1979), academician (1960) and president (1960-68, 1977-87) of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Hero of the Socialist ... - BLOKHIN ALEXEY ALEKSANDROVICH in the Big Encyclopedic Dictionary:
(1897-1942) Russian petroleum geologist, professor (1937). Conducted geological research on the Kerch Peninsula, the western slope of the Urals and in the Urals. Opened (1932) the first... - BLOKHIN NIKOLAY NIKOLAEVICH
Nikolai Nikolaevich [b. 21.4 (4.5).1912, Lukoyanov, Nizhny Novgorod province], Soviet oncologist surgeon, academician (1960) and president (1960-68) of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Member of the CPSU with... - BLOKHIN ALEXEY ALEKSANDROVICH in big Soviet encyclopedia, TSB:
Alexey Alexandrovich, Soviet petroleum geologist, professor (1937). In 1929 he graduated from the Moscow Mining Academy. ... - BLOCHINS in the Brief Biographical Encyclopedia:
The Blokhins are a Russian noble family, according to legend, descended from the Golden Horde prince Berka (in holy baptism Anikey, the direct ancestor of the Anichkov nobles), ... - 1985.08.21
Dynamo Kyiv forward Oleg BLOKHIN is the first in the history of Soviet football to score 200 goals in the championships... - 1972.07.16 in Pages of History What, where, when:
Oleg BLOKHIN makes his debut in the USSR national team (friendly match with... - FLEA OPERATION in Medical terms:
(N. N. Blokhin, born in 1912, Soviet surgeon and oncologist) surgical transplantation of the ureters into an isolated loop of the sigmoid colon, ... - PLASTIC SURGERY in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
plastic, reconstructive surgery, a branch of surgery that studies the problems of surgical restoration of the function and form of partially or completely lost organs, correction of congenital... - FOOTBALL in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
(English football, from foot - leg and ball - ball), sports team game, in which athletes, using individual guidance and ... - PHYSICS in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
I. The subject and structure of physics Physics is a science that studies the simplest and at the same time the most general patterns natural phenomena, properties... - THE USSR. LITERATURE AND ART in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
and art Literature Multinational Soviet literature represents a qualitative new stage development of literature. As a definite artistic whole, united by a single socio-ideological... - THE USSR. NATURAL SCIENCES in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
Science Mathematics Scientific research in the field of mathematics began to be carried out in Russia in the 18th century, when Leningrad became members of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences... - SPECTRAL ANALYSIS X-RAY in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
X-ray analysis, elemental analysis of the material composition of materials based on their X-ray spectra. Quality S. a. R. performed according to spectral position... - SPECTRAL X-RAY EQUIPMENT in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
X-ray equipment, equipment in which X-rays are excited in the substance under study, decomposed into a spectrum and recorded. Precision S. a. R. ... - X-RAY SPECTRA in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
spectra, emission and absorption spectra of x-rays, i.e. electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range from 10-4 to 103. ... - X-RAYS in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
rays, x-rays, electromagnetic ionizing radiation, occupying the spectral region between gamma and ultraviolet radiation within wavelengths from 10-4 ... - X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, TSB:
spectroscopy, obtaining X-ray emission and absorption spectra and their application to the study of the electronic energy structure of atoms, molecules and solids. ...
The surname Blokhin refers to hereditary names formed from the personal nickname of an ancestor. Ancient tradition Naming by nicknames existed in Rus' for many centuries. It did not disappear even after the adoption of Christianity. If baptismal names were often repeated and caused confusion in recognizing people, then nicknames had a huge variety, which made it possible to distinguish between owners of the same names. Nicknames often appeared in official documents; from them ancient patronymic names were formed in the possessive form, which later became the basis of the surname.
The origin of the surname Blokhin goes back to the nickname Blokha, quite popular among the Slavs. For example, in written sources Mentioned: Vilna tradesman Blokha (1445), Novgorod landowner Ivan Ivanovich Blokha Anichkov (1495), centurion of the Zaporozhye army Blokha (1674). Blokhina's children were called "Blokhin's son" and "Blokhin's daughter", where Blokhina's surname originates. IN XV-XVI centuries this generic name was already widespread. Archival documents indicate that the peasant Pashka Blokhin (1495) and the Tver landowner Alexei Mikhailovich Blokhin (1653) once lived in Rus'. Several Russians are known noble families Blokhin, the oldest of whom comes from the prince of the Golden Horde, Berka, who arrived at the court of Ivan Kalita in 1301. Another noble family of the Blokhins is of Cossack origin. Its founder, Stepan Blokha, was a comrade of the Borzen Hundred in 1714.
Variants of origin of the surname
The meaning of the surname Blokhin is directly related to the name of the insect “flea”. However, these days it is difficult to say what the surname Blokhin means in each specific case. The nickname Flea could be given to a person whose appearance or behavior resembles a flea. Perhaps the ancestor of the Blokhins was short and of small build, could not sit in one place and stood out for his fussy movements. According to explanatory dictionary IN AND. Dahl, Siberians called Russians from the European part of Russia “flea bugs” because there are no fleas in Siberia. It is possible that the Blokhins’ ancestor lived beyond the Urals, and received the nickname Blokha because he was from the Great Russians. The first bearer of the surname Blokhin could live in a settlement called Blokh, Blokhin or Blokhino, and take the surname Blokhin in memory of his small homeland.
Having memorized it from childhood, we repeat it throughout our lives as something given once and for all and very significant. Since ancient times, the Slavs had a tradition of giving a person a nickname in addition to the name he received at baptism. A truly inexhaustible supply of nicknames made it easy to distinguish a person in society. The sources could be: an indication of the character or appearance of a person, the name of the nationality or locality from which the person came. In most cases, nicknames that were originally attached to baptismal names completely replaced names not only in Everyday life, but also in official documents.
In Onomasticon S.B. Veselovsky mentions Ivan Ivanovich Blokha Anichkov, 1495, Novgorod - the Blokhin family name has been known since the 15th century.
The Blokhins are a Russian noble family, according to legend, descended from the Golden Horde prince Berka (in holy baptism Anikey, the direct ancestor of the Anichkov nobles), who arrived in 1301 to the Moscow Grand Duke Ivan Kalita. Ivan Yakovlevich Blokhin was a governor in Kologriv in 1617 - 1618. His son, Ivan Ivanovich, was a solicitor, and his grandson, Artemy Ivanovich, was a steward and owner of estates in Tver, Staritsky and Uglich districts. The Blokhin family is recorded in part VI of the genealogical books of the provinces of Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Penza and Kaluga. The coat of arms of the family is included in Part 12 of the General Arms of Arms of the Noble Families of the All-Russian Empire.
Among the most famous namesakes is Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, an outstanding Soviet Ukrainian football player, author of many USSR football records, football coach. Among the records of Soviet football set by Blokhin, the achievement of 200 goals stands out. A significant event happened on August 21, 1985 in Kharkov, during the match of Metalist Dynamo (Kyiv). Flea, eventually received the surname Blokhin.
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Origin of surnames
on the example of two villages of Sergach district
My parents both come from villages that, before the revolution, were part of the same Sergach district of the Nizhny Novgorod province. The father was born in the village of Pokrov (now the Gaginsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region), and the mother was born in the village of Starinskoye (now the Pilnensky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region). Sergach district was quite extensive. The distance between the villages is approximately 70 km in a straight line. In both villages there was always a purely Russian population, although surrounded by Pokrov there were many villages and villages with a Mordovian population, and surrounded by Starinsky with a Tatar population, this factor did not have any influence on the formation of surnames in the villages.
It must be said that in the Sergach district, the names of peasants were not written in documents until later. With the exception of peasants recruited. All retired soldiers have surnames on their documents. In the village of Pokrov, surnames appear only after 1872, and in the village of Starinsky even later. But this does not mean that surnames did not exist at all. Each family knew its family name.
Studying archival documents for both villages, I identified one pattern in the origin of surnames. In the village of Starinskoye, almost all surnames were formed from men's proper names, i.e. from the names of the ancestors - the Sidorovs, Kuzmins, Varlamovs, Fedotovs, Fedoseevs. And very rarely from nicknames, Khrulev, for example. Even such, it would seem, unusual surnames for these places, both Lupanov and Apollonov are formed from the male names Lupp and Apollo, respectively.
The surname Khrulev is derived from the nickname Khrul. According to one version, the nickname was based on the common noun “khrul”, i.e. a type of wide awl, a flat hook for weaving bast shoes. Most likely, this nickname refers to the so-called “professional” names containing an indication of a person’s activities. Therefore, it is likely that the founder of the Khrulev family was a lapotnik. In addition, a person was often called Khrul vertically challenged. Khrul, eventually received the surname Khrulev.
In the village of Pokrov, surnames have a very wide variety. Alyaevs, Atopshevs, Blokhins, Bystrovs, Bubnovs, Gryaznovs, Denisovs, Zobovs, Komarovs, Korolevs, Kurylevs, Lonskovs, Oreshkins, Pescherovs, Puzankovs, Sukhanovs, Chekhovs, Yashins.
There are a lot of surnames that come from clearly nicknamed names: Bystrov (from the nickname Bystraya), Gryaznov (Dirty), Puzankov (Puzanok). Of course, there are many surnames that come from male proper names, such as the Denisovs and Yashins.
The history of the origin of the surname Atopshevy (in the old days Otopshevy) is interesting. The story of its origin was told to me by Lidia Alekseevna Blokhina (Atopsheva), which she heard from her grandfather. Worn out bast shoes were called ottopyshki. And the family that was engaged in restoring (repairing) worn-out bast shoes received the surname Otopshevy.
The history of the origin of my grandmother’s surname, the Kurylevs, is very multivariate. In the village there were two similar surnames, the Korolevs and the Kurylevs (in the 19th century metric books they sometimes wrote “Korylevs”). I think it's the same last name, just spelled differently. A lot depended on the education of the sexton who recorded the names in the registry register at birth, marriage and death. He could be very educated, or he could have graduated from a parochial school, or simply be young.
In the metric books for 1858, the surname of retired soldier Ivan Eliseevich Evstigneev appears for the first time (GANO f. 570, op 559b, d. 1653), but the surname of his grandfather Vasily Fedotovich in the metric book of 1852 is recorded, apparently by ear, as Stegneev. Now the discrepancies in surnames become clear.
Since the surname was written down by ear, one could see a wide variety of the same surname. In our case, we can definitely say Korolev, Korylev and Kurylev are the same surname. But its origin may be different.
It is possible that one of my grandmother’s ancestors bore the nickname King and the surname came from him. But in the “Arzamas Local Acts” I came across the nickname Korol, which means a person who is on guard, i.e. guards. It is quite possible that the surname Kurylev could have come from this nickname. Try saying “Koroulyov” out loud! Now it is clear?
The Lonskova surname is not at all as simple as it seems. In one of the registry books I came across the spelling of this surname as Lonskoy, and this is already a noble surname.
The second version of the origin of this surname is as follows: In Tula and Voronezh dialects, lan means field. Thus, lanova, lanskaya in meaning is the same as field. Lanskoy also means last year.
BLOCHINS
No less interesting and complicated is the history of the origin of the surname of my ancestors in the village of Pokrov - Blokhins. By the way, my grandparents also said their last name with the emphasis on the second syllable - BlokhIny.
The fact is that the village of Pokrov (then the village of Pokrovskoye) at the beginning of the 17th century was part of the Zalesny camp of the Arzamas district and was located beyond the Zasechnaya line, or rather beyond its Shatkovsky gate. Since the 1580s, the children of the boyar Blokhins served on this notch line and received estates not far from their places of service.
I also heard the phrase from my grandmother that the Blokhins are service people. I think she repeated this phrase more than a dozen times, remembering it from her girlhood. Although, none of the Blokhins, except my grandfather, served in the army before the revolution. Only very rare ones were recruited, but that was a very long time ago.
First version of origin: By the end of the 17th century, the Arzamas serif line lost its defensive significance. Some of the noble children of the Blokhins were transferred to the Atemar and Pezenskaya zaseka. Service people became poor. Already by the 1650s, the Blokhins had estates in the Arzamas district, and there was not a single peasant household in them. There was no one to cultivate the land. The Blokhins who remained in the Arzamas district had no choice but to take up the plow to feed themselves. They went to free lands, including beyond the abatis line. Someone went in the other direction from the fence, deep into Russian territory. For example, there are a lot of Blokhins in the village of Kovaksa in the present Arzamas region.
Version two: My ancestors were serfs of one of the servicemen - landowner Blokhin (I don’t know which one). There are many known cases when all the peasants of one landowner were given his last name. Maybe this is the same case.
Since, according to my research in Pokrov, surnames began to be written in church registers starting in 1872, it can be assumed that the Blokhins’ surname was in use, but was not recorded. Previously, only the names of the soldiers who received them in the army and brought them to their native villages were written. This is the third version of the origin of the Blokhins surname in Pokrov. Maybe one of my ancestors, being on military service, once received the surname Blokhin from the nickname Blokha?
But from the records in the registry books, I found out that my ancestor Pyotr Prokofievich (born 1821) bore the surname Blokhin, just like his brothers Philip Prokofievich (by the way, a soldier), Grigory Prokofievich and Ivan Prokofievich. This means their father, Prokofy Kharitonovich (b. 1763), also bore this surname. So, since it is reliably known that Prokofy Kharitonovich was a peasant (it was always written about retired soldiers in revision tales), we can conclude that the family name - the surname Blokhina - is much older.
And the last, fourth version: Blokhin is a simple nickname, again from the nickname Bloch, so named for his restlessness.
All versions have the right to exist. I have a fascinating task ahead of me - to find out the correctness of one of the versions, and perhaps a completely different interpretation of the origin of the Blokhin family in Pokrov.
Reviews
I really enjoyed your research. I know four Blokhins, two comrades from the Tomsk region from the north, two from Siberia nearby, we are southern Siberians. The southern ones are relative to the northern ones. Minus five on a clear day, I’m worried that I opened grapes, there are 13 vines, I’m a little worried, but I believe in them. These are just experiences along the way. Many other surnames are found here. Maybe it was just scattered, most likely a coincidence, who knows.
You write very well, you can also write historical and ironic ones. After all, you’re not just delving into the archives, but from our people, you can hear a lot. Filter in your head whether to write yes or no. You will please your fellow countrymen, and then how will it go.
A representative of the Blokhin family can be proud of his ancestors, information about which is contained in various documents confirming the mark they left in the history of Russia.
The surname Blokhin belongs to the ancient type of Russian surnames formed from a secular name.
The tradition of giving a person, in addition to the name received at baptism, a second, so-called “worldly” name, developed in Rus' immediately after the adoption of Christianity and persisted until the 17th century. This is explained by the fact that there were relatively few church names, they were often repeated, and this created inconvenience in communication. In addition, at first these “foreign” names were perceived as “alien.” Therefore, usually, along with the baptismal document, the child was given one more, originally Slavic name, which was familiar and understandable.
Worldly names were used as nicknames, often completely replacing the official name not only in everyday life, but also in documents. Large group worldly names were ancient, dating back to pagan beliefs“security” names based on the names of various animals, birds, fish, insects. These names later became one of the main sources of nicknames, with the only difference being that nicknames were often given taking into account any individual characteristics of the person. You can often come across the nickname Flea, which, most likely, could have been given to a small person, short in stature, or restless, jumping from place to place. This nickname was very common among representatives of all classes. It was worn, for example, by the Vilna tradesman Blokha (1445), the Novgorod landowner Blokha Ivanov son Anichkin (1495), the centurion of the Zaporozhye army Blokha (1674) and many others.
In the 15th-16th centuries in Rus', among princes, boyars and other privileged classes, surnames began to appear as special family names, inherited from father to children. Very soon, the very presence of a surname became prestigious and socially significant, so representatives of other wealthy strata also sought to form surnames and thereby get rid of nicknames. Already by the beginning of the 17th century, most Russian surnames were formed by adding the suffixes -ov/-ev and -in to the base - the name or nickname of the father. By their origin, such surnames are possessive adjectives: Ilyin means son of Ilya. Moreover, from nicknames ending in a consonant, -о or -й, surnames in -ov/-ev arose, and the suffix -in was added to stems ending in -a/-ya. So from the worldly name Blokh the ancient Russian surname Blokhin was formed.
It is quite difficult to say today exactly when and where the surname Blokhin first appeared, but it is known that in the 15th-16th centuries it was already widespread. Thus, in 1495 the peasant Pashka Blokhin was mentioned, and in 1653 the Tver otchinnik Alexei Mikhailov Blokhin was mentioned.
There is no doubt that the surname Blokhin has an interesting centuries-old history and should be considered one of the oldest Russian family names, testifying to the diversity of ways in which Russian surnames appeared.
Sources: Tupikov N.M. Dictionary of Old Russian personal names. St. Petersburg, 1903. Superanskaya A.V. Dictionary of Russian personal names. M., 1998. Veselovsky S.B. Onomasticon. M., 1974. Unbegaun B.O. Russian surnames. M., 1995.
