Ruslan (first name)

Ruslan , Russlan or Rouslan ( Russian Руслан ) is a male, Russian given name of Turkish-Tatar origin and means "lion". It is particularly widespread in the Russian Federation , Ukraine , the Caucasus and Central Asia, while the name is rarely used in Western Europe. The feminine name version is Ruslana .

Name bearer

• Ruslan Imranowitsch Chasbulatow (* 1942), Chechen politician
• Ruslan Fedotenko (* 1979), Ukrainian professional ice hockey player
• Ruslan Leonidowitsch Grizan (* 1978), Russian ski orienteer and mountain bike orienteer
• Ruslan Karajew (* 1983), Russian kickboxer
• Ruslan Pidhornyj (* 1977), Ukrainian cyclist
• Ruslan Ponomarjow (* 1983), Ukrainian chess player
• Ruslan Ryaboshapka (* 1976), Ukrainian Attorney General
• Ruslan Salej (1974–2011), Belarusian ice hockey player
• Ruslan Sharipov (* 1978), Uzbek journalist and human rights activist
• Ruslan Chagayev (* 1978), Uzbek boxer

Fictional people

Ruslan is the main character from the fairytale verse epic Ruslan and Lyudmila ( Russian Руслан и Людмила ) by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin . The story is based on an opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila , for which Michail Ivanovich Glinka wrote the music and Nestor Kukolnik the libretto.

In the filmed work The Story of the Faithful Dog Ruslan ( Russian Верный Руслан ) by Georgi Vladimov, Ruslan is the name of a dog, while in Driven to Kill , an American thriller , the protagonist played by Steven Seagal is called Ruslan Drachev.

Name giver for an aircraft

The Antonov An-124 Ruslan transport aircraft , which was designed for the Soviet Union's army in the late 1970s , also bears the name Ruslan.