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Nekrasov

family name (Некрасов)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ1975130 ↗
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Nekrasov (Russian: Некра́сов), feminine: Nekrasova (Некра́сова), is a Russian surname sometimes transliterated as Nekrassov/Nekrassova. Notable people with the surname include:

Aleksandr Nekrasov (1883–1957), Russian mathematician and academician

Andrei Nekrasov (born 1958), contemporary Russian filmmaker from St. Petersburg

Dasha Nekrasova (born 1991), Belarusian-American actress, filmmaker and podcaster

Ekaterina Nekrassova, Estonian retired pair skater

Elena Nekrasova, Russian writer, filmmaker and contemporary artist

Ignat Nekrasov (c.1660-1737), original leader of Nekrasovites (Nekrasov Cossacks)

Irina Nekrassova, female weightlifter from Kazakhstan.

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The public source identifies “Nekrasov” as family name (Некрасов). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nekrasov, family and name.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1883, 1957, 1958, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nekrasov, family and name providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1975130. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1883, 1957, 1958 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nekrasov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.