Origin of the Kuznetsov surname - origin of surnames - useful information - genealogy - personal. How the surname of blacksmiths was formed. Where did the surname of blacksmiths come from

The surname Kuznetsov ranks third in the list of the most common Russian surnames for 2005, according to the list compiled by E.V. Balanovskaya and published in various printed publications.

The surname Kuznetsov comes from the name of the profession - “blacksmith”. This surname shows that the father was a blacksmith. If the reference goes to the blacksmith’s wife, then the surname changed somewhat and sounded like Kuznechikhin.

The surname Kuznetsov is common not only among Russians, but also among Ukrainians and Belarusians.

There are variations in the spelling of the suffix for related surnames - Kuznechenkov, Kuznichenkov. It is likely that one is more related to the profession of “blacksmith”, and the other – to the place of work – the “smithy”. Also with other related surnames - Kuznetsky/Kuznitsky, Kuznichenko/Kuznechenko.

The surname Kuznetsov has related surnames, such as Kuznitsyn, Kuznik, Kuznechenok, Kuznyak, Kuznetsovsky, Kuznechevsky.

The Ukrainian analogue of the surname Kuznetsov is the surname Koval, in England - Smith, in Germany - Schmidt.

Famous people with the surname Kuznetsov

Kuznetsov Alexander Vasilievich (1874-1954) - Russian and Soviet architect, design engineer and designer. According to his designs, at the beginning of the twentieth century, many industrial enterprises (weaving and spinning factories), as well as buildings of schools and institutes, were built. He created a style of architecture called “reinforced concrete modern” by researchers. In the buildings he used innovative (for that time) materials - reinforced concrete, metal structures, glass, tiles.
Kuznetsov Alexander Petrovich (1913-1982) - Soviet chess player, compiler of compositions. Became an international master in 1973. Winner of a gold medal at the 1964 Olympic competition.
Kuznetsov Alexey Leonidovich (born 1974) is a Russian and Kazakh bandy player.
Kuznetsov Viktor Ivanovich (1913-1991) - Soviet scientist, designer of gyroscopic devices and control systems used in the military industry (rocket and space systems).
Kuznetsov Grigory Timofeevich (1916-1947) - sapper, full holder of the Order of Glory.
Kuznetsov Ivan Aleksandrovich (born in 1988) is a Russian canoeist, member of the Russian national team. Twice winner of bronze at the European Championship.
Kuznetsov Isay Konstantinovich (1916-2010) - Soviet playwright and screenwriter.
Kuznetsov Pavel Maratovich (born 1958) is a Russian diplomat.
Kuznetsov Sergey Gennadievich (born in 1986) is a Russian football player.
Kuznetsova Agnia Evgenievna (born in 1985) is a Russian actress.
Kuznetsova Valentina Nikolaevna (born in 1948) - Soviet and Russian translator, philologist, linguist. He studies biblical literature.
Kuznetsova Larisa Grigorievna (born in 1990) - surname after marriage - Kuklina; Russian skier (biathlon), medalist of the 2013 and 2017 World Winter Universiade, 2009 world champion among juniors.
Kuznetsova Era Vasilievna (1927-1988) - Soviet linguist, philologist, her last works were related to semantics.

A representative of the Kuznetsov surname can be proud of his surname, which opens forgotten pages of the life and culture of our ancestors and can tell a lot of interesting things about the distant past.

The surname Kuznetsov belongs to the old type of Russian surnames, formed from a personal nickname.

The tradition of giving a person an individual nickname in addition to the name received at baptism has existed since ancient times in Rus' and persisted until the 17th century. This is explained by the fact that in everyday life there were relatively few church names, which were therefore often repeated. The supply of nicknames was practically inexhaustible, which made it easy to distinguish a person from other bearers of the same name.

Nicknames in Rus' were extremely varied and often reflected some striking qualities of a person’s appearance, character or occupation. The old personal nickname Kuznets is also among the “professional” names. In the old days, a blacksmith was the most necessary and conspicuous person in the village. Blacksmiths who worked with fire - wealthy and important people - were credited with many magical properties, and naming on this basis was ubiquitous. Ancient business documents mention Solvychegodsk townsman Ivan Panfilov Kuznets (1618), peasants of the Vilegodsk volost of Solvychegodsk district Mitrofan Titov Kuznets (1557) and Fyodor Kuzmin Kuznets (1597) and many other people with similar names passed down from generation to generation.

In the 15th-16th centuries in Rus', primarily among the noble and wealthy classes, the first Russian surnames began to appear as special, inherited family names. Already in the 16th century, the most common model of their formation was the addition to the stem of the suffixes -ov/-ev or -in, which over time became typical indicators of Russian surnames. Such surnames, by their origin, were possessive adjectives, and the basis of surnames most often became the name or nickname of the father. So the descendants of a man who in ancient times bore the nickname Kuznets received the surname Kuznetsov.

This surname arose very early and is recorded in archival documents starting from the 15th century. In ancient times, it was worn by residents of various Russian lands: Novgorod peasant Ortemko Kuznetsov (1495), Moscow handyman Kuznetsov (1504), peasant of the Solvychegodsk district Job Ilyin Kuznetsov (1567), a certain Zamyatnya Pozdeev Kuznetsov (1607), Yelets Cossacks Terek and Yakushko Kuznetsov (1615), Moscow merchant Leonty Kuznetsov (1699), Sevsky gunner Petrushka Kuznetsov (1659) and others.

Today the surname Kuznetsov is one of the most common in Russia. So, in Moscow in 1964 there were 78 thousand Kuznetsovs, only Ivanovs were more common (there were 90 thousand of them). And in a huge strip to the south and east of Moscow - from the Upper Oka to the Middle Volga, that is, in Tula, Gorky, Penza, Ulyanovsk - the Kuznetsovs were most often encountered. Thus, the ancient surname Kuznetsov testifies to the inexhaustible wealth of the Russian language and the variety of ways in which Russian surnames emerged.

Sources: Unbegaun B.-O. Russian surnames. Nikonov V.A. Dictionary of Russian surnames. Dal V.I. Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language. Veselovsky S.B. Onomasticon. Tupikov N.M. Dictionary of Old Russian personal proper names.

The surname is widespread both in the Urals and throughout Russia as a whole: “Since the blacksmith was the most necessary and well-known person in the village, naming on this basis was ubiquitous. Therefore, the surname Kuznetsov is one of the most common in Russia; 78 thousand Kuznetsovs lived in Moscow (1964) (second in number only to the Ivanovs, of whom there were 90 thousand). In some localities, the surname Kuznetsov took first place in frequency (for example, in 17 volosts of the Kerensky and Chembarsky districts of the Penza province in 1917, out of 69 thousand Russians included in the calculations, 1031 people were Kuznetsovs)” (Nikonov. P.58).

In the “List of 100” the surname occupies 23rd place, but “among surnames formed from the names of professions, only the surname Popov is ahead of it” (Unbegaun. P.99). Undoubtedly, Kuznetsov is one of the most “Ural” names; Wed: in Kamyshlovsky district. in 1822, the Kuznetsovs lived in 45 settlements (24 parishes out of 44).

The surname (or also the paternal name) has been fixed since the end of the 15th century: “Ortemko Kuznetsov, peasant, 1495; Kuznetsov, Moscow handyman, 1504; Isachko Gridin Kuznetsov, Belozersky peasant, 1504; Ofonasy Mikhailov son of Kuznetsov, Tavrensky peasant, 1604; Petrushka Kuznetsov, Sevsky gunner, 1659" (Tupikov); Bogdan Zakharyevich Kuznets, Vologda, 1629 (Chaikina).

Cis-Ural examples: “Resident of Salt Kama Neklyud Ivanov son Kuznets, 1574; peasant of Orla-town Osipko Melentyev son of Kuznetsov, 1647” (Polyakova); see also: Zhitnikov. P.38-41.

In the Middle Urals, the nickname and surname are found already in the census of 1624: in the Verkhoturye settlement there were the courtyards of the townsman (from among the “threshing people”) Pantelei Kirillovich Kuznets and the archer Andrei Kuznetsov; Nikita Gavrilovich Kuznets lived in his yard in bobyly on the Tagil River.

Later, peasants with the nickname Kuznets lived in the village of Yaroslavskaya in Nevyanskaya district. and in the Belosludskaya village, the Kuznetsovs are coachmen in the Mugai churchyard, in the villages of Makhnevoy and Dedyukhina in the Tagil village, peasants in the settlement of the Nevyansk Epiphany Monastery and investors in the Verkhotursky Nikolaevsky Monastery, in the villages of Maslykova on the Rezha river and Shogrynskaya on the Shogrysh river in the Nevyanskaya district, in the village of Gostkova in the Aramashevskaya district, in the village of Filinskaya in the Nitsynskaya district, in the village of Zaykova in the Irbitskaya district, as well as in the villages of Chusovskaya, Utkinskaya district: Polskaya (a native of the village of Lapshina in the Ilyinsky churchyard Solikamsk u.), Levina, Fomina (in both courtyards of this village; the owner of one of them, Foma Nikitich Kuznetsov, apparently the founder of the village, was a native of the Obvinskaya volost. Solikamsk u., his son Ivan lived in the second courtyard) and Zavyalova (born in the village of Sarale, Elabuga/Alabuga district) (census 1680). In 1674 in Ayat village. four “industrial people” are recorded with the nickname Kuznets (Lyubimov. P.13). About the Kuznetsovs from Pokrovskaya Volost. Verkhotursky u. see: Brylin, Elkin. P.16.

The distribution of the surname is reflected in the toponymy of the northern part of the Sverdlovsk region: the village of Kuznetsova in the Garinsky district, the village of Kuznetsovo in the Turin and Taborinsky districts.

The nickname and surname are mentioned in ten records of contributions to the Dalmatovsky monastery (see: Mankova, p. 214).

Within the future Kamyshlovsky district. the nickname and surname have been known since the second half of the 17th century. In 1666/67 in Pyshminskaya sl. (20:1) a zatinschik settled (a shooter at a zatinny squeak, “a serf gun mounted on a bipod” - Dahl) Pyotr Manuilovich Kuznetsov, the son of a peasant from the Charonda district, the owner of a forge, and a year later - his brother, the peasant Lazar Manuilovich Kuznetsov (census 1680). In general, Ural sources confirm the observations of D.Ya. Rezun, made on Siberian materials, that the surname Kuznetsov “is much more common among townspeople and peasants than among servicemen” (Rezun. P. 100).

From the end of the 17th century. The Kuznetsovs lived in the Belyakovskaya and Kuyarovskaya districts, the descendants of some of them are recorded in the IR 1822 within the Kuyarovsky, Talitsky, and possibly some other parishes. In Belyakovskaya village (23:1) the peasant Pyotr Ivanovich Kuznetsov (1690/91) is mentioned earlier than others; later, peasants Gavriil Semenovich Kuznetsov (village of Verkhnyaya Aramylskaya - 23:13) and Ivan Grigorievich Kuznetsov (village of Ozernaya, “above Lake Polousny” - 23:25) lived here, and in the village of Malakhovskaya (23:4) - the bob Leonty Lukyanovich Kuznetsovskikh (census of 1710).

Among the peasants of Kuyarovskaya village. (21:1) in 1691/92 there were Pyotr Ivanovich Kuznetsov and those transferred from the Kirginskaya sl. Semyon Kuznetsov with children (cf.: in the village of Galisheva in Kirginskaya village lived the peasant Vasily Martemyanovich Kuznetsov - census of 1719). Later, Semyon’s sons lived in the settlement - Vlas and Kallinik (Kalina) Semenovich, as well as Rodion Dmitrievich and Grigory Kirillovich Kuznetsov; another son of S. Kuznetsov could be Dmitry Semenovich Kuznetsov from the village of Efremova (26:10); in the village of Gorbunova (22:7) lived Vasily Ivanovich Kuznetsov, in the village of Lugovoy (22:5) - Anton Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, but especially many Kuznetsovs lived in the village of Beloyalanskaya (22:3) - Peter and Luka Afanasyevich and Kozma Matveevich , and in the village of Yarovskaya (21:7) - Mitrofan Ustinovich, his son Evstafiy (Ostafiy), as well as Pyotr Kozmich (census of 1710).

From the end of the 17th century. the surname is known within the Kalinovskaya village: the peasants of this settlement Vasily Vasilyevich and Gerasim Semenovich Kuznetsov are mentioned in a document of 1681/82 (Shishonko III. pp. 825-826); later in the village of Latysheva (43:1) Lazar Agafonovich Kuznetsov lived on the farmstead (census of 1710), in the village of Kalashnikova - the bog Rodion Dmitrievich Kuznetsov, and in the settlement itself in the house of his son-in-law, sexton F.I. Kadilov, Afanasy Nikitich Kuznetsov (census of 1719).

In Novopyshminskaya village. (34:1) lived the peasants Timofey Vasilyevich (with his sons Ivan, Feoktist/Feklist and Artemon; at the end of the 17th century he was a white-local Cossack - see: Shishonko III. P.837) and Kozma Ivanovich (with his son Ivan) Kuznetsov ( censuses of 1710 and 1719), in the village of Rudyanskoy (37:6) in the farmstead - bobyl Andrei Epifanovich Kuznetsov (census of 1719). Among them could be the ancestors of the Kuznetsovs, who were recorded in these areas in the IR 1822.

Kuznetsovs from the southwestern parishes of Kamyshlovsky district. also, perhaps, descend from ancestors who settled in these places at the end of the 17th century. In 1682/83, peasants Konstantin Alekseevich and Dorofey Mefodievich (Nefedev) Kuznetsov, natives of Demyanskaya Volost, came to the Kataysky fort and settled in the village of Katayka (6:1). Totemsky u. (census 1695); Konstantin Alekseevich Kuznetsov Letyaga and his son Ivan were registered in the Kataysk fort in 1709, and Dorofey Mefodievich - in Katayka. The census of 1719 in the village of Troitsky (formerly Katayka) recorded the peasant Ivan Lukyanovich Kuznetsov living on the farmstead with his son Trofim; the above-mentioned Katayans moved to the village of Lukina (14:5): son Ivan lived with K.A. Kuznetsov with sons Boris, Afanasy, Stepan and Denis and grandchildren Vasily and Mikhail Ignatievich, with D.M. Kuznetsov lived sons Ivan (with son Onuphrius/Anophrey) and Abram, another of his sons, Gregory, lived in his courtyard with his son Ivan; in the village of Bol. Trestovka (14:1) lived the peasant Timofey Semenovich Kuznetsov with his son Evtikhios (Eftifei). Their descendants lived in 1822 in the parish of Krestovskaya Sl. In the village of Bol. Shutikha near the Kataysky fort there lived a peasant Yakov Kozmich Kuznetsov with his son Fedor (census of 1719).

In 1690/91, Ivan Fomich Kuznetsov, a native of Ilyinskaya Volost, came to the Kolchedansky fort and settled in the village of Batukhtina. in Solikamsk district (census 1695).

In the first half of the 18th century. the surname became widespread within the Kamenskaya village: in the settlement itself lived the peasant Mikhail Leontyevich Kuznetsov (died in 1729) with his sons Stepan (in 1725 he was hired as a carpenter at the Verkh-Isetsky plant under construction) and Ivan, Bobyl children Ivan and Pyotr Avramovich Kuznetsov (died in 1726), at the Kamensky upper factories (2:4) - peasants, brothers Avksentiy (Oksen) Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (in 1735, together with his sons Anton, Efim and Ivan, was included in the Bagaryatskaya sl.), Alexey Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (he and his son Pavel died in 1740) and Ivan Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (he and his son Peter died in 1731), who had sons Feoktist/Feklist, Alexey, Matvey (written in the 1722 census). as Stepan), Peter and Ivan (II revision, 1745). The materials of the 2nd revision also mention the centurion of the Kamenskaya syllabus. Evsey Avramovich Kuznetsov.

The ancestors of the Kuznetsovs were in the parish of Shcherbakovskaya village. there were a peasant from the village of Nikolaevsky Shcherbakov (12:1) Ivan Emelyanovich Kuznetsov with his sons Terenty, Ulyan, Afanasy and Avram and his brother Daniel, who had sons Boris, Fedot and Philip (census 1719; II revision, 1745) .

In 1822, in Kamyshlov, the surname was borne by non-employee privates of the disabled team and government workers, artisans, in the Kamensky plant - artisans (their surname was especially common), factory permanent workers and a soldier, in the Talitsky plant - artisans, in the villages of Yurmytsky, Kurovskaya and Kalinovskaya sl. - clergy and clergy, in the villages of Travyanskoye, Pirogovsky, Cheremkhovsky, Krestovskaya, Balairskaya and Troitskaya villages. - female soldiers and retired soldiers, in Shcherbakovskaya village. and the village of Zakharovsk - soldiers and peasants, in other places - peasants.

The surname is common everywhere, especially in Dalmatovsky (Memory - 107 people), Talitsky (Memory - 101 people), Kamyshlovsky (Memory - 52 people) and Kamensky (Memory - 47 people) districts.

1.1. Kamyshlov city, parish of the Intercession Cathedral, from 1668 - Kamyshevskaya (after 1686 - Kamyshlovskaya) settlement, from 1781 - county town

1.5. Obukhova village, parish of the Intercession Cathedral

1.10. Koksharov village, parish of the Intercession Cathedral

2.1. Kamensky plant, parish of the Holy Trinity Church, founded in 1701; from 1935 - Kamensk (from 1940 - Kamensk-Uralsky)

2.5. Pozorikha village, parish of the Holy Trinity Church, village of Pozorikha, “aka Stepanova” (1745); Pozorishina (1869), from 1975 - village of Pozarikhinskoye

3.1. Travyanskoye village, parish of the Church of the Presentation, until 1750 - Travyanskaya village

3.4. Suvorskaya village, parish of the Vvedenskaya Church, Suvorkova village (1745), Suvory village (1904), later village (1956)

6.1. Kataysky fort, parish of the Trinity Church, village of Katayka (1695), village of Troitskoye (1719), Kataysko-Troitskoye (1869)

12.1. Shcherbakovskaya Sloboda, parish of the St. Nicholas Church, village of Nikolaevskoe Shcherbakovo (1719)

12.2. Klyukina village, parish of the St. Nicholas Church, aka Evsyukova (1902)

13.1. Cheremkhovskoye village, parish of the Ascension Church, Cheremkhina village (1745), from 1754 - Cheremkhovskoye village, also known as Savino (1869), Savinskoye (early 20th century)

13.6. Kolmogorov village, parish of the Ascension Church, aka Gorbina (1869)

14.1. Krestovskaya Sloboda, parish of the Ascension Church, Trestovka village (1695), Bolshaya Trestovka (1719), from 1752 - Krestovskoye village

14.4. Shutina (or Shutinskaya) village ("Shutinskaya volost"), parish of the Ascension Church, Shutina village (1719), from 1852 -

14.5. Lukina village, parish of the Ascension Church, settlement (1958)

15.1. Tamakulskaya Sloboda, parish of St. George's Church

15.8. New village, parish of St. George's Church, (1869), Novoselskoye (1958)

21.4. Pulnikova village, parish of the Trinity Church, Pulnikova village (1902), Pulnikova village (1923), Pulnikova village First and Second (1928)

21.7. Yarovskaya village, parish of the Trinity Church, Yar village (1904, 1956), since 1967 - a village

22.1. Talitsky plant, parish Peter and Paul Church, village of Talitskoye (1869), from 1942 - city of Talitsa

22.3. Beloyalan village, parish Peter and Paul Church, also known as Yalan village (1869), Beloyalan village (1902), Beloyalanskaya (1904)

22.4. Zotina village, parish Peter and Paul Church

22.6. Perdunova village, parish Peter and Paul Church, village of Perdunova (Berdunova), 1869, Pervunova (1902)

22.7. Gorbunova village, parish Peter and Paul Church, since 1866

27.1. Yurmitskoye village, parish of the Church of the Virgin Mary, Novo-Pyshminskaya Sloboda (late 17th century), Yurmitskaya Sloboda (1708), Yurmitskoye village (Pecherkina Sloboda), 1869, also known as Pecherkino (1908)

28.1. Kurovskaya Sloboda, St. Nicholas Church parish, Kurovskaya village (1710), since 1770 - a village

30.4. Mostovskaya village, parish of the Prokopyevskaya Church, aka Mitkina (1869)

31.1. Pyshminskaya economic settlement, parish of the Presentation Church, village of the Verkhotursky Nikolaevsky Monastery (founded between 1659 and 1680), village of Nikolskoye (1869)

32.1. Troitskaya Sloboda, parish of the Trinity Church, the village of Mikitushkina (1710), also known as Nikitina, from 1747 - the village of Troitskoye

32.6. Deaf village, parish of Trinity Church

33.1. Kalinovskaya Sloboda, parish of the Nativity Church

34.1. Novopyshminskaya Sloboda, a parish of the Archangel Church, arose on the site of the village of Pyshminskaya (founded by the Nevyansk Epiphany Monastery in 1657/58) in 1681, according to documents from the late 17th century. - Verkh-Pyshminskaya

35.4. Sergulovskaya village, parish of St. Nicholas Church, village of Sergulovka (Sergulova), 1869

37.1. Znamenskaya Sloboda, parish of the Znamenskaya Church, Znamensky Pogost (1719), Kokuy (until 1791)

38.7. Beleiskaya village, parish of the Prokopyevskaya Church, Beleika village (1869), aka Gramazina (Gramazino), 1908, 1923

44.1. Zakharovskoye village, parish of the Trinity Church, village since 1759, also known as Good (1869)

The text is quoted from the book by Alexey Gennadievich Mosin “Dictionary of Ural Surnames”, publishing house “Ekaterinburg”, 2000. All copyrights reserved. When quoting the text and using it in publications, a link is required.

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Studying the history of the origin of the Kuznetsov surname opens forgotten pages of the life and culture of our ancestors and can tell a lot of interesting things about the distant past.

The surname Kuznetsov belongs to the old type of Russian surnames, formed from a personal nickname.

Today the Kuznetsov surname is one of the most common in Russia. So, in Moscow in 1964 there were 78 thousand Kuznetsovs, only Ivanovs were more common (there were 90 thousand of them). And in a huge strip to the south and east of Moscow - from the Upper Oka to the Middle Volga, that is, in Tula, Gorky, Penza, Ulyanovsk - the Kuznetsovs were most often encountered.

Thus, the ancient surname Kuznetsov testifies to the inexhaustible wealth of the Russian language and the variety of ways in which Russian surnames emerged.

Sources: Ganzhina I.M. Dictionary of modern Russian surnames. Vedina T.F. Encyclopedia of Russian surnames. Secrets of origin and meaning. Fedosyuk Yu.A. Russian surnames: popular etymological dictionary. Khigir B.Yu. Encyclopedia of Russian surnames.

Last name Kuznetsov refers to those hereditary names that can rightfully be considered international. History of the Kuznetsov surname in national variants it exists in many countries where the population has Indo-European roots. For example, in the USA, the surname Smith (blacksmith) is considered the most common; in Germany, you can often find Schmidt (also a blacksmith); in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, everyone is familiar with the surname Koval (again, a blacksmith) and its derivatives - Kovalsky, Kovalenko, Kovalchuk. Origin of the surname Kuznetsov and his “relatives” is associated with the profession of the father of the first owner of the surname.

The meaning of the surname Kuznetsov.

As you know, when it became necessary to choose a hereditary name for all members of the family, the father’s personal name or nickname was taken as the basis. At that time, along with baptismal names, secular names, more like nicknames, were also in use. Nicknames indicated some individual characteristic of a person, and often his occupation. Among all nations, the blacksmith was a prominent, respected and slightly mysterious figure. It couldn’t be otherwise - a person who can master fire and metal is always a bit of a wizard. This profession in itself became a distinctive feature of a person, and his heirs were called the Kuznetsov children. The answer to the question " What does the name Kuznetsov mean? lies on the surface - the first bearer of the surname was the son of a blacksmith. It is interesting that the meaning of the surname Kuznetsov occasionally has maternal roots, although in a slightly modified version. The surname Kuznechikhin comes from the nickname of the blacksmith’s wife – Kuznechikha.

Prevalence of the surname Kuznetsov.

Determine the exact location where does the surname Kuznetsov come from? appeared before anything else, almost impossible. There were blacksmiths in almost all populated areas in Rus'; the nickname Kuznets was worn by many men for a long time, and their descendants became Kuznetsovs. Ancient documents mention Ivan Kuznets (1618), Mitrofan Kuznets (1557), and Fyodor Kuznets (1597). All of them lived in the north of Russia in the Arkhangelsk province. It must be said that it was there that surnames began to appear first among the townspeople and peasants, since these were people free from serfdom and they might well need more accurate identification in order to protect inheritance rights or conduct “paper” affairs.

Quite definite meaning of the surname Kuznetsov is not limited to one profession of its early owners. History has preserved in ancient documents the memory of the Novgorod peasant Ortemko Kuznetsov (1495), the Yelets Cossacks Terekha and Yakushka Kuznetsov (1615), and the Moscow merchant Leonty Kuznetsov (1699). And now the surname Kuznetsov can boast of being very widespread - it is most often found in the vast territory southeast of Moscow. There are a lot of Kuznetsovs in Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Penza and Yekaterinburg.