Kuchin

Kuchin, feminine: Kuchina (Russian: Кучин, Кучина) is a Russian-language surname. The name is derived from the nickname Kucha (куча, literally: "heap", "pile", a reference to a big man) of the founder of the noble Russian Kuchin family [ru] of Polish descent.[1]

Notable people with this surname include:

* Alexander Kuchin (1888–c.1913), Russian oceanographer
* Artyom Kuchin (born 1977), Kazakhstani football referee
* Mariya Kuchina (born 1993), Russian high jumper

## References

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1. ^  "Кучины" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.

Surname list

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