Vereshchagin () is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Vereshchagina. It was also a name of an old Russian Boyar family.
Notable surname bearers
- Pavel Vereshchagin, a character from the 1970 Soviet movie White Sun of the Desert
- Pyotr Vereshchagin (1834/36âÂÂ1886), Russian landscape and cityscape painter
- Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin (1835âÂÂ1909), Russian portraitist, history painter and illustrator, brother of Pyotr
- Nikolay Vereshchagin (1839âÂÂ1907), organizer of Russian cheese and butter industry
- Vasily Vereshchagin (1842âÂÂ1904), Russian war painter, brother of Nikolay
- The V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum
- Nikolai Kuzmich Vereshchagin (1908âÂÂ2008), Russian zoologist who specialized in the study of mammoths and other Arctic paleofauna, grandson of the war painter Vasily Vereshchagin
- Igor Vereshchagin (born 1952), Russian music and street photographer.
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