Meanings
- A surname from Russian.
After their father died and their mother fell into drink, Petr Khokhlov and his brother, Sergey, were sent to an orphanage in Novouzensk, a small, dusty town of low-slung Soviet-era apartment blocks on Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
2015 January 7, Joshua Yaffa, “The Search for Petr Khokhlov”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2015
Origin
- RussianХохлов
- EnglishKhokhlov
Borrowed from Russian Хохлов (Xoxlov).
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Khokhlov. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Khokhlov
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