Balabanov (Balaban, Balabanoff, Ballabon, etc.) and their derivatives (-ovs, -ich, etc.) are common last names in North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia. Notable people with the surname include:
- Aleksei Balabanov (1959-2013), Russian filmmaker
- Andrey Balabanov, Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer
- Angelica Balabanov (1878-1965), Russian-Italian Marxist revolutionary, Comintern secretary in 1919-1921
- Kostantyn Balabanov (born 1982), Ukrainian football player
- Vasile Balabanov (1873-1947), provincial administrator of Imperial Russia
Origins of the name
Possible origins of the name according to Tudor Balabanov:
- 1. in the Kazakh Mountains there is an eagle called Balaban from which the name may be derived.
- 2. One of the recipients of this name may have been the Persians that around 4000 years ago started naming the leading three soldiers of a battalion, namely: the one with the flag, those with a drum, and the one with a blow instrument - the Balabans.
- 3. The Turks may have taken over this name and given it to the relatively tall non-Muslim men from their territories.
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