Ruslan (given name)

Ruslan, Ruslan or Rouslan (Russian Руслан ) is a masculine first name and comes from the Turkic language family. It is derived from the common Turkic Arslan (Lion) ago (see also Arslan ). The name is particularly widespread in the Russian Federation, Tatarstan, Ukraine, Caucasus and Central Asia. In Western Europe, the name is rather rare.

Ruslana is a female version of the name.

Bearers of the name

  • Ruslan Imranowitsch Khasbulatov (* 1944), politician of Chechen
  • Ruslan Fedotenko ( b. 1979 ), the Ukrainian professional hockey player
  • Ruslan Karajew (* 1983), Russian Kickboxer
  • Ruslan Pidhornyj ( b. 1977 ), Ukrainian cyclist
  • Ruslan Ponomariov ( b. 1983 ), Ukrainian chess player
  • Ruslan Salej (1974-2011), Belarusian ice hockey player
  • Ruslan Sharipov (born 1978 ), Uzbek journalist and human rights activist
  • Ruslan Tschagajew (born 1978 ), Uzbek boxers

Fictional people

Ruslan is a main character from the fairytale epic poem " Ruslan and Lyudmila " ( Руслан и Людмила ) by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, after the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila was born with music by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka with a libretto by Nestor Kukolnik and others.

In the film Driven to Kill carries the cuteness of Steven Seagal role the name Ruslan.

Eponym for an aircraft

The name Ruslan carries the transport aircraft Antonov An-124 Ruslan, designed in the late 1970s for the Soviet Army in the USSR.

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