title: Yelagin (surname)
text: # Yelagin (surname)
  
  Yelagin or Elagin (feminine: Yelagina, Elagina) is a Russian-language surname. It may refer to:
  
  * Yelagin family [ru], Russian noble family
  * Ekaterina Elagina, geologist, discoverer of the deposits of the Mir diamond mine
  * Ivan Elagin (poet) (1918–1987), Russuan Emigre poet
  * Ivan Yelagin (1725–1794), Russian historian and poet, unofficial secretary to Catherine the Great
  * Ivan Oleksandrovych Yelagin [uk] (1934–2007), Ukrainian poet
  * Nikolay Elagin [ru] (1817–1891), Russian writer and notorious censor
  * Olga Elagin, poet Olga Anstei
  * Vasily Igorevich Yelagin, Russian mountaineer and explorer
  * Vasily Ivanovich Yelagin [ru] (1743–?), Russian general
  * Vladimir Yelagin (born 1955), Russian politician
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Yelagin, the protagonist of Ivan Bunin's novella Case of Cornet Yelagin (Дело корнета Елагина)
  