Abalkin or Abalkina is a Russian surname. It derives from the Pskov regional dialectal word "аба́лка" or "оба́лка", meaning a bale, a bundle, or, by analogy, a swaddled child.People with this last nameLeonid Abalkin (1930–2011), Soviet/Russian economistFictional charactersLev Abalkin, a character in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe