Mels is a given name. It was created in the Soviet Union as an acronym of the major Communist figures: Мэлс (Маркс, Энгельс, Ленин и Сталин), Mels (Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin).
Notable people with the given name include: (born 1949) Soviet and Uzbekistani sambo wrestler, Honored Coach of Uzbekistan (1982) (born 1952), Kyrgyzstani military commander Soviet and Russian arher Mels Eleusizov (born 1950), Kazakh public figure and ecologist. He was a candidate for President of Kazakhstan in the 2005 and 2011 elections (born 1970), Kazakhstani poet , Soviet and Kazakhstani architect (1940–1981), was a Buryat poet in the Soviet Union. (1940–2004) Russian physician and public figure
Fictional characters Mels Biryukov, main character in the 2008 Russian film Stilyagi
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