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Olimpiada (given Name)
Olimpiada (russian: Олимпиада, meaning Olympics) is a Slavic feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Olimpiada Bodiu (1912–1971), Bessarabian anti-Soviet activist * Olimpiada Ivanova (born 1970), Russian race walker * Olimpiada Kozlova Olimpiada Vasilyevna Kozlova (, August 6, 1906 – December 7, 1986) was a Soviet economist, professor, and founder of management education in the Soviet Union. Biography Kozlova was born on , 1906, in the Pokrovskaya Sloboda (now the city of ... (1906–1986), Soviet economist {{Given name, Olimpiada Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olimpiada Bodiu
Olimpiada Bodiu (1912–1971) was a Bessarabian activist and member of an anti-communist resistance group in the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. Biography Olimpiada (of Olimpia) Bodiu was born in Mîndrești village, then in Orhei County, Kingdom of Romania, now in Telenești District, Moldova. Between 1945–1950, she was a member of an anti-Soviet organization in Bessarabia, led by her husband Filimon Bodiu. On November 16, 1950 Bodiu, together with her husband and their children, Ion and Iulia, were hiding in Mîndrești, in the house of Porfir Suruceanu, another member of the organization. They were tracked down by MGB troops, with the help of a former contact person from the group. The commander of the MGB unit demanded that they surrender. The Bodius refused, and a hopeless battle ensued. Filimon and Ion died in the shootout, but managed to cover Iulia's escape, whose father ordered her to flee. Olimpiada Bodiu, who fought armed with an automatic pistol, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olimpiada Ivanova
Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova (russian: Олимпиада Владимировна Иванова, born 26 August 1970) is a Russian race walker. Her first gold medal was won in the 2001 Edmonton World Championships, where she beat the rest of the world with the time 1.27:48. A year later, in 2002, she won another gold medal at the 2002 European Championship in Munich. The next major sporting event she took part in was the 2004 Athens Olympics where she finished second. The winner was the home hero Athanasia Tsoumeleka, who deeply moved the ecstatic Greek crowd by getting her country's first ever medal in the event (time 1:29:12). Ivanova finished four seconds later and could not hide her disappointment. She did, however, win the gold for the 20 km walk in the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, beating the world record. For this record she was added to the 2007 Guinness World Record. Ivanova was stripped of her silver medal in the 10 kilometer walk at the 1997 World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olimpiada Kozlova
Olimpiada Vasilyevna Kozlova (, August 6, 1906 – December 7, 1986) was a Soviet economist, professor, and founder of management education in the Soviet Union. Biography Kozlova was born on , 1906, in the Pokrovskaya Sloboda (now the city of Engels, Saratov Oblast) into a fishing family. She was ethnically Russian. Her career began at the age of 10 in the Pokrovskaya artel of fishers. In the mid-1920s, she worked as a turner at the Karbolit plant (Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast), then at the Moselectric plant in Moscow. From 1927 to 1932, she was secretary of the village council of the village of Chernoe Ozero, Shatursky District, deputy chairman of the council, and deputy chairman of the executive committee of the council. At the same time, Kozlova improved her education, entered the Moscow Institute of Soviet Cooperative Trade, which she graduated in 1937, and then the Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 1940 she completed her postgraduate studies at the Moscow Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |