Vanka (river)
Vanka may refer to: *A diminutive form of the name Ivan * "Vanka" (short story), a story by Anton Chekhov *A character from the show ''Monster Warriors ''Monster Warriors'' is an original Canadian television series which aired on YTV in Canada and also on Jetix since April 2006 in the United Kingdom. It was created by Wilson Coneybeare and produced by Coneybeare Stories. The series concluded its ...

Ivan
Ivan () is a Slavic languages, Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John (given name), John) from Hebrew language, Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria, Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking world, Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin alphabet, Latin spelling, while Cyrillic script, Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, Russian language, Russian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, Serbian language, Serbian and Montenegrin language, Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian language, Belarusian and Ukrainian language, Ukrainian it is Іван. The ...
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Vanka (short Story)
"Vanka" (russian: Ванька)Vanka, Van'ka: a diminutive for Ivan (name), Ivan is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov. Publication The story was first published in ''Peterburgskaya Gazeta''s No. 354 (25 December; new style: 7 January 1887), 1886 issue, in the Christmas Stories section, signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте).Polotskaya, E. A. Commentaries to Ванька. The Works by A.P. Chekhov in 12 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. Moscow, 1960. Vol. 4, pp. 568 In a slightly revised version, it was included into the 1888 collection ''Stories'' (Рассказы, Saint Petersburg) and appeared unchanged in all of its 1888–1899 re-issues. It made its way into the compilations ''Children'' (Детвора, 1889) to be reproduced unchanged in its second and third (1890, 1895) editions. In 1900, with unauthorized cuts, it appeared in a children's reader ''Zolotyie Kolosya'' (Golden Spikes). Chekhov included the story into Volume 4 of his Collected Works published by Ado ...
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