Usyskin, also Usiskin, Usyshkin, Ussishkin, etc., is a Jewish surname. According to Alexander Beider's Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire, the surname is derived from the river Usyska.A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition Vladimir Maksimov of the research centre "Surname History" mentions other versions. In particular he points out that in the 19th century there was a settlement Usyska by the river, as well as that Usyska was a diminutive for the name Sisoy.Из истории фамилий, Nauka i Zhizn, no. 9, 2014 Beider notes that the surname was recorded in Vitebsk, Gorodok and Velizh uyezds of Vitebsk Governorate, Russia. Notable people with the surname include:
, Soviet counter admiral (1910–1934), Soviet physicist, crew member of the stratospheric aerostat Osoaviakhim-1 David Ussishkin (born 1935) Israeli archeologist Menachem Ussishkin (1863–1941), Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund Zalman Usiskin, American mathematics educator, director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project Ussishkin, a character from the 1972 Soviet comedy film Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram
See also Ussishkin Fortress
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