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Zveref And Students
Zverev (russian: Зве́рев, from ''зверь'' meaning ''beast'') is a Russian masculine surname also used in Belarus; its feminine counterpart is Zvereva, Zverava ( be, Зверава). It may refer to * Alexander Zverev Sr. (born 1960), Soviet tennis player * Alexander Zverev (born 1997), German tennis player of Russian descent * Alexander Zverev (sprinter) (born 1989), Russian sprinter *Anatoly Zverev (1931–1986), Soviet artist * Arseny Zverev (1900–1969), Soviet finance minister *Ellina Zvereva (born 1960), Belarusian discus thrower * Mischa Zverev (born 1987), Russian-born German tennis player *Natasha Zvereva (born 1971), Belarusian tennis player * Nicolas Zverev (1887–1965), Russian-French ballet dancer *Nikolai Zverev (1832–1893), pianist and teacher of major Russian classical music figures * Yana Zvereva (born 1989), Russian épée fencer See also *Zverev Bridge Zverev Bridge (russian: Зверев мост) is a pedestrian arch bridge that spans Vodootvo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zverev Sr
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 2, and was continuously ranked in the top 10 from July 2017 to November 2022. Zverev's career highlights include titles at the 2018 and the 2021 ATP Finals, and a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He has won 19 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and reached his first major final at the 2020 US Open, finishing runner-up to Dominic Thiem. Zverev is the only active player outside of the Big Four with five Masters 1000 titles. He sustained an ankle injury during the semifinals of the 2022 French Open against Rafael Nadal and is currently recovering. Zverev is a former junior world No. 1, and won a junior major singles title at the 2014 Australian Open. He had an early breakthrough on the professional tour as well, becoming one of the youngest Challenger Tour title winners in history at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zverev (sprinter)
Alexander Zverev (born 7 November 1989) is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T13 sprint events. Zverev has competed at two Summer Paralympic Games, 2008 in Beijing and 2012 at London. At the 2012 Games he won silver in the 400m sprint. Personal history Zverev was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 1989. Career history Zverev took up athletics at the age of 13. Due to a visual impairment he was eligible to compete in parasports and was classified as a T13 athlete, for sportspeople with poor vision, but who do not require a running guide. Initially coached by Sergey Nazarov, he qualified for the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing where he took part in the 400m T13 event. At the Games he qualified through the heats to take part in the final, where he finished fifth. In the buildup to the 2012 Games, Zverev took part in the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships held in Christchurch. There he took the gold medal in his favoured 400m sprint, with a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Zverev
Anatoly (Anatoli) Timofeevich Zverev russian: Анатолий Тимофеевич Зверев (November 3, 1931 Moscow –December 9, 1986 Moscow) was a Russian artist, a member of the non-conformist movement and a founder of Russian Expressionism in the 1960s. He spent all of his life in Moscow. He did not have a solo show in Russia until shortly before his death in 1986 and his work was exhibited in small, underground galleries. Throughout his career he was harassed and persecuted by the Soviet authorities especially as his international success grew. Work His style of tachisme can be compared with the work of the American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. His work was based on deep philosophical convictions, particularly the idea of momentalism, that everything is in constant change. His intention was to render direct sensations, and he worked at great speed. Early life Zverev was born in Moscow. His grandfather was an icon painter. His father was a war inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arseny Zverev
Arseny Grigoryevich Zverev (russian: Арсе́ний Григо́рьевич Зве́рев; 2 March 1900 – 27 July 1969) was a Soviet and Russian politician, economist and statesman whose career spanned the rules of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev, but culminated during the Stalin years. Zverev was born in a little village just outside Moscow. After years in local politics, he rose to prominence as a Deputy Commissar of Finance, but he also held other lesser posts such as a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. As Deputy Commissar of Finance he was able to work up, and eventually get promoted to People's Commissar for Finance (renamed to Ministry in 1946). Later, Zverev gained a seat in both the Central Committee and the Presidium. During the Great Patriotic War he was responsible for providing funds for the Soviet military machine to fight the Germans. After the war he lost his Ministership, but was again made Minister of Finance late in 1948. He was replac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellina Zvereva
Ellina Aleksandrovna Zvereva ( be, Эліна Зверава; born 16 November 1960 in Dolgoprudny) is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She became world champion in 1995, and again in 2001 after the disqualification of Natalya Sadova. Her victory in 2001 made her the oldest World Champion ever, at 40 years and 269 days. Her personal best is 71.58m. She retired in 2010 as one of the last remaining athletes to have competed for the Soviet Union. Doping In 1992 she tested positive for anabolic steroids. Achievements See also * List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ... References External links * Belarusian sportspeople in doping cases Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Zverev
Mikhail "Mischa" Alexandrovich Zverev (russian: Михаил "Миша" Александрович Зверев, , ; born 22 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player born in Russia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25 on 24 July 2017. At the 2017 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2017 Australian Open, Zverev beat world No. 1 Andy Murray in four sets before losing in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Roger Federer. As a qualifier, he has also reached the quarterfinals of both the 2009 Italian Open – Men's singles, 2009 Italian Open and the 2016 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Singles, 2016 Shanghai Masters. Personal life Zverev was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, USSR but grew up in Hamburg, Germany when his parents emigrated there in 1990. He is the son of former Russian tennis player Alexander Zverev Sr., who is also his coach. Internationally, he represents Germany and resides in Monte Carlo, Monaco. His younger brother, Alexander Zverev, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Zvereva
Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava ( be, Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; russian: Наталья Маратовна Зверева, Natalia Maratovna Zvereva; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. She was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings. Zvereva and her main doubles partner Gigi Fernández are the most successful women's doubles team (measured by WTA Tour and major titles) since Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. On 12 July 2010, Zvereva was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame alongside Fernández. Personal life Zvereva was born as Natalya Marataŭna Zvereva in Minsk, Belarus to parents Marat Nikolayevich Zverev and Nina Grigoryevna Zvereva. She started tennis at the age of seven at the encouragement of her parents, who were both tennis instructors in the Soviet Union. While her name is sometimes spelled Zverava, in 1994 she of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Zverev
Nicolas Zverev (or Zvereff ; russian: Николай Матвеевич Зверев; 1888, Moscow - 24 July 1965 Saint-Raphaël, Var, Saint-Raphaël) was a Russian-France, French dancer and ballet master. He studied at the Moscow ballet class at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, theatre school of the Moscow Imperial troupe. In 1912 he was invited by Sergei Diaghilev to his troupe Ballets russes. Zverev participated in the Ballets russes from 1912 or 1913 to 1926. Among his roles were Slave (Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), ''Scheherazade'', Michel Fokine’s ballet), Cossack Chief (La Boutique fantasque, 1919), one of the men (Les biches, 1924) etc. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Zverev could not return to Russia. He continued to work in European theaters: he worked for six years at the national Opera of Lithuania in Kaunas and was involved in the birth of the Les Ballets de Monte Carlo of René Blum (ballet), René Blum (1936-1938). From 1942 to 1945, he became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Zverev
Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev (russian: Николай Серге́евич Зве́рев, sometimes transliterated Nikolai Zveref; ) was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others. Life Zverev was born in 1833 in Volokolamsk, Russia, into an aristocratic family. He attended Moscow State University, studying mathematics and physics, while taking piano lessons from Alexander Dubuque (1812–1898). He did not graduate, because he inherited a large family fortune, and moved to Saint Petersburg to become a civil servant. While there, he continued to study piano with Adolf von Henselt, who emphasized the importance of practice, which was the basis of Zverev's own strict regime that he required of his students. Unfulfilled with civil service, and persuaded by Dubuque, he returned to Moscow in 1867 to become a private teacher. In 1870, Nikolai Rubinstein aske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yana Zvereva
Yana Aleksandrovna Zvereva (russian: Яна Александровна Зверева; born 6 March 1989) is a Russian épée fencer, team world champion in the 2013 World Championships at Budapest and team silver medal in the 2014 European Championships in Strasbourg. Career Zvereva began fencing at the age of 12. She joined the Junior Russian national team in 2005. With them, she won the 2006 Junior European Championships in Poznań and the 2009 Junior World Championships in Belfast. In the seniors, she took the third place in the 2008 Lobnya World Cup. She made her breakthrough in the 2012–13 season: she won the 2013 Sparkassen-Cup in Leipzig and reached the quarter-finals in the individual event of the 2013 World Championships in Budapest. She also won the team gold medal with Russia. In the 2013–14 season, she won a silver medal in the 2014 Ciudad de Barcelona. She advanced to the quarter-finals in the European Championships in Strasbourg, but was stopped by host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zverev Bridge
Zverev Bridge (russian: Зверев мост) is a pedestrian arch bridge that spans Vodootvodny Canal in Zamoskvorechye district of downtown Moscow, Russia. It was built in 1930 by N.Ya.Kalmykov (structural engineering) and I.A.Frantsuz (architectural design). History and specifications The oldest pedestrian bridge in Moscow, it connects Sadovnichesky (formerly Zverev) lane with Bolshoy Tatarsky Lane. The name ''Zverev'' belonged to a local merchant family; in soviet time, it was deemed improper for a lane, but quite acceptable for a small bridge in a working-class neighborhood. Today, both sides of Vodootvodny Canal are a mix of expensive residential and office space, but in 1930 the Canal was flanked by industrial properties - textile mills in Sadovniki and Red Hills, boiler and turbine plants on the other bank. Main arch was made of in situ concrete, covered with jute mats for moisture protection and paved with ordinary asphalt. The unusually slim arch, traditionally painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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