Mashkautsan (sometimes Mashkautzan, Mashcautsan, etc.; ) is a surname of Bessarabian Jews. It is a toponymic surname literally meaning "one from Mașcăuți".P. Gil (П.ГИЛЬ), "Фамилии ашкеназских еврее" ("Surnames of Ashkenazi Jews"), In: ВЕСТНИК ЕВРЕЙСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА В МОСКВЕ no. 2, 1993, p. 64 Notable people with the surname include:
Semyon Mashkautsan (born 1990), Russian official, illegal head of the Russia-occupied Kherson Oblast Shabsa Mashkautsan (1924–2022), Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union References