Krylov
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Krylov (masculine or Krylova (feminine) is a common Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n last name, derived from a word literally meaning a wing
Wing
A wing is an appendage with a surface that produces lift for flight or propulsion through the atmosphere, or through another gaseous or liquid fluid...

 (крыло́). Alternative spellings are Krilov, Kryloff, Kriloff (masculine) and Krilova (feminine; Крылова).

This last name is shared by the following people:
  • Alexei Krylov
    Alexei Krylov
    Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.-Biography:Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov was born on August 3 O.S., 1863 to the family of an Army Artillery officer in a village Akhmatovo near town Alatyr of the Simbirsk Gubernia in Russia...

    , a Russian naval engineer and applied mathematician
    • Krylov (crater)
      Krylov (crater)
      Krylov is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies about one crater diameter to the northwest of Cockroft, and due west of Evershed....

      , a lunar crater named after him
    • Krylov Peninsula
      Krylov Peninsula
      Krylov Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula west of Lauritzen Bay on Oates Coast. Photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump , the Soviet Antarctic Expedition , and ANARE ; named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition after Soviet mathematician and academic naval architect Alexei Krylov ....

      , an Antarctic peninsula named after him
  • Alexander Krylov (1904-?), a Soviet academician and scientist in the field of oil deposits development
  • Andrey Krylov (gymnast)
    Andrey Krylov (gymnast)
    Andrey Krylov is a Russian trampolinist and was the gold medallist in men's tumbling at the 2007 Trampoline World Championships.-External links:*...

    , a Russian trampolinist
  • Andrey Krylov (swimmer), a Soviet swimmer
  • Andrei Krylov (musician)
    Andrei Krylov (musician)
    Andrei Krylov is a Russian 7- and 6- string guitarist, composer and poet. He studied classical guitar, arrangement and composition in St. Petersburg, Russia and is now living in Canada. In the 1980s and 1990s he worked as a guitarist for the Russian State concert company Lenconcert and the Old...

    , a Russian guitarist, composer
  • Fyodor Krylov (1915–1977), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
    Hero of the Soviet Union
    The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...

  • Ivan Krylov
    Ivan Krylov
    Ivan Andreyevich Krylov is Russia's best known fabulist. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine, later fables were original work, often satirizing the incompetent bureaucracy that was stifling social progress in his time.-Life:Ivan Krylov was born in...

    , a Russian poet and fabulist
    • 5247 Krylov
      5247 Krylov
      5247 Krylov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

      , an asteroid named after him
  • Mikhail Krylov, Russian sculptor (1786 — 1846)
  • Nikolay Krylov (disambiguation), see there for a list
  • Pavel Krylov (officer) (1914–1944), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Pavel Aleksandrovich Krylov
    Pavel Aleksandrovich Krylov
    Pavel Aleksandrovich Krylov is a Russian professional footballer. In 2011, he last played for FC Sheksna Cherepovets. He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 2005 for FC Nara-Desna Naro-Fominsk. He played 2 games in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2004 for FC Shinnik...

     (b. 1986), a Russian footballer
  • Porfiry Krylov (painter) (1902-?), a Soviet painter and graphic artist
  • Porfiry Krylov (botanist) (1850–1931), a Soviet botanist
  • Sergey Krylov (musician), a Russian violinist
  • Sergey Krylov (historian), a Soviet historian
  • Victor Krylov
    Victor Krylov
    Victor Krylov is Russian-born British academic, professor of Acoustics and Vibration at Loughborough University. In recognition of his contribution to the field of Acoustics, he was awarded the prestigious Rayleigh Medal by the Institute of Acoustics in 2000.Victor Krylov was born in Tambov, Russia...

    , a British physicist
  • Viktor Krylov (playwright) (1838–1906), a Russian playwright
  • Vladimir Krylov
    Vladimir Krylov
    Vladimir Valentinovich Krylov is a former Soviet athlete. He was Soviet 100, 200 and 400 metres champion, and also Soviet indoor 200 metres in 1989....

    , a Soviet runner
  • Yevgeny Krylov, a Russian gymnast


In mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

, Krylov may refer to
  • a Krylov subspace
    Krylov subspace
    In linear algebra, the order-r Krylov subspace generated by an n-by-n matrix A and a vector b of dimension n is the linear subspace spanned by the images of b under the first r powers of A , that is,...

  • the Krylov-Bogolyubov theorem
    Krylov-Bogolyubov theorem
    In mathematics, the Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem may refer to any of the two related fundamental theorems within the theory of dynamical systems...



Others
  • Krylov FA-37 Assault Rifle, a fictitious weapon in Battlefield 2142
    Battlefield 2142
    Battlefield 2142 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Illusions CE and produced by Electronic Arts . It is the fourth game in the Battlefield series...

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