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(ru) (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(ru) (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). Given names