title: Mels (name)
text: # Mels (name)
  
  Mels is a given name. It was created by the Soviet government as an acronym of the major Vozhds of the Soviet people: Мэлс (Маркс, Энгельс, Ленин и Сталин), Mels (Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin).
  
  ## Persons with the given name
  
  * Mels Hamzajevitch Yeleussizov (born 1950), Kazakh public figure and ecologist. He was a candidate for President of Kazakhstan in the 2005 and 2011 elections.
  * Mels Fedorovich (born 1949, Pskent, Tashkent region), was a Soviet sambo wrestler, Honored Coach of Uzbekistan (1982), and in 2022, he is the Vice President of the Judo Federation of Uzbekistan.
  * Mels Zhamyanovich Sambuev (1940–1981), was a Buryat poet in the Soviet Union.
  
  ## Fictional characters in pop culture
  
  * Mels is the main character in the Russian film Stilyagi (2008).
  