Details for the forename Lenin

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Lenin (surname)


Variants:	Lelikov (S) Lelkin (S) Lelyakin (S) Lelyakov (S) Lelyanov (S) Lelyashin (S) Lelyukhin (S) Lenkin (S) Lenkov (S) Lennikov (S) Lenov (S) Lenshin (S) Lentsov (S)
Derivative of:	Alexander (S)

Source(s):	The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:	Russian short form of a number of patronymic variants of Alexander [q.v.]; e.g. Alenin and Olenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov chose the surname Lenin in honour of the uprising of political exiles on the River Lena in Siberia.