Pugachev (surname)

Pugachev/Pugachyov/Pugachov (feminine:Pugacheva/Pugachyova/Pugachova) is a Russian surname, Russian: Пугачёв/Пугачёва, commonly ritten without diacritics: Russian: Пугачев/Пугачева. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alla Pugacheva (born 1949), Russian musical performer
  • Yemelyan Pugachev (c. 1742–1775), leader of the Cossack insurrection in Russia
  • Sergei Pugachev (born 1963), Russian politician
  • Shneur Zalman Pugachov (1878–1934), Jewish Zionist educator active in Warsaw, Moscow, Berlin, and Palestine
  • Viktor Pugachev (born 1948), Russian test pilot