Mels (name)
Appearance
Mels is a given name. It was created by the Soviet government as an acronym of the major Vozhds of the Soviet people:
Мэлс (Маркс, Энгельс, Ленин и Сталин),
Mels (Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin).
Persons with the given name
[edit]- Mels Hamzajevitch Yeleussizov (born 1950), Kazakh public figure and ecologist. He was a candidate for President of Kazakhstan in the 2005 and 2011 elections.
- Mels Fedorovich(ru) (born 1949, Pskent, Tashkent region), was a Soviet sambo wrestler, Honored Coach of Uzbekistan (1982), and in 2022, he is the Vice President of the Judo Federation of Uzbekistan.
- Mels Zhamyanovich Sambuev(ru) (1940–1981), was a Buryat poet in the Soviet Union.
Fictional characters in pop culture
[edit]- Mels is the main character in the Russian film Stilyagi (2008).