Pnin is a Russian surname produced by truncation of the surname Repnin.Boris Unbegaun, Russian surnames, — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972; Russian version: Русские фамилии, 1989, Chapter IX: "Artificial surnames"
Notable people with the surname include: Ivan Pnin (1773–1805), Russian poet and political writer (1803–1837), Russian painter
Fictional characters Timofey Pnin, protagonist of the novel Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Emir Pnin, a role played by Hilmi Sözer in Die Verwegene – Kämpfe um deinen Traum
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