Petrovsky (feminine: Petrovskaya) is a Russian-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:

People

* Adolf Petrovsky (1887–1937), Soviet diplomat * (born 1981), Russian singer * Boris Petrovsky (1908–2004), Soviet surgeon and politician * Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky (1933–2023), German jazz saxophonist * David Petrovsky (Lipetz) (also known as Max Goldfarb, Bennett, Humboldt, Brown (1886–1937), Jewish revolutionary politician, economist, journalist, general of the Red Army, and Soviet statesman *

Grigory Petrovsky Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (, ; 4 February 1878 – 10 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Treaty of Brest-L ...

(1878–1958), Ukrainian revolutionary * Ivan Petrovsky (1901–1973), Soviet mathematician * Kristina Petrovskaia (born 1980), retired Russian ice hockey player * Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (1918–2018), Russian-American writer *

Leonid Petrovsky Leonid Grigorevich Petrovsky (11 June 1897 – 17 August 1941) was a Soviet lieutenant general. He was the oldest son of Grigory Petrovsky. He was born in what is now Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. He was promoted to Komkor from Komdiv in 1937. While ...

(1897–1941), Soviet lieutenant general * (1933–2019), Russian astronomer, the namesake of 5319 Petrovskaya, minor planet * (1875–1921), Russian philologer, best known for his "Словарь русских личных имён" (''Dictionary of Russian First Names'') * (1891–1968), Russian teacher best known for his ''Dictionary of Russian First Names'' *

Nikolai Petrovsky Nikolay Fyodorovich Petrovsky (; 1837–1908) was the Imperial Russia, Russian Diplomatic consulate, consul-general in Kashgar from 1882 until 1902. Petrovsky's main adversary during his time in Central Asia was George Macartney (British consul), ...

(1837–1908), Russian diplomat *

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born Ivan Myronovych Petrovsky, April 6, 1962) is an American historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controv ...

(born 1962), Russian-American historian, philologist and essayist

Fictional characters

* Aleksandr Petrovsky, fictional character played by Mikhail Baryshnikov in ''

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