Dorodnitsyn

Dorodnitsyn is a Russian surname. It is sometimes transliterated as Dorodnitsky or Dorodnitskiy, reflecting different systems for rendering Cyrillic in Latin script. The name is borne by several individuals in the Soviet and Russian scientific and engineering communities.

Notable bearers include scientists and engineers who contributed to mathematics, physics, and computing. In the Soviet era a number of researchers with the surname were affiliated with institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences and with state research programs, particularly in the development of early computing hardware and algorithms. While not all figures share the same first name, the surname is associated with a tradition of research in computational science and applied mathematics.

A prominent institutional use of the name is the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The center, established to advance high-performance computing, is named in honor of a pioneering Soviet computer scientist bearing the Dorodnitsyn surname, reflecting its historical ties to the development of computing in the USSR.

The surname is of Russian origin and remains most common in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Variants in transliteration can appear in English-language texts, including Dorodnitsky or Dorodnitskiy.