title: Platonov
text: # Platonov
  
  Platonov or Platonaw is a surname. It may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, Russian writer of the Soviet period
  * Denis Platonov (born 1981), Russian ice hockey player
  * Dzmitry Platonaw (born 1986), Belarusian footballer
  * Igor Platonov (1934–1995), Ukrainian-Soviet chess grandmaster
  * Oleg Platonov Russian writer
  * Pavel Platonaw (born 1986), Belarusian footballer
  * Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian historian who led the official St Petersburg school of imperial historiography
  * Viacheslav Platonov (1939–2005), Russian volleyball player and coach
  * Vladimir Petrovich Platonov (born 1939) Russian-Belarusian mathematician
  * Yuriy Mihailovich Platonov, mayor of Rybnitsa, Transnistria
  
  ## Play
  
  * Platonov (play), by Anton Chekhov
  