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Zoia
Zoia is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Zoia Ceaușescu (1949–2006), Romanian mathematician *Zoia Duriagina (born 1950), Ukrainian scientist *Zoia Gaidai (1902–1965), Soviet Ukrainian opera soprano *Zoia Horn (1918–2014), American librarian *Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky (1903–1999), Russian-Swedish artist *Zoia Ovsii (born 1994), Ukrainian Paralympic athlete *Zoia Skoropadenko (born 1978), Ukrainian contemporary mixed-media artist Surname *Clyde Zoia (1896–1955), American football player *Luigi Zoia (born 1948), Italian karateka {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Horn
Zoia Markovna Horn (née Polisar; March 14, 1918July 12, 2014), born in Ukraine, became in 1972 the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience. Horn, an outspoken member of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, worked at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for contempt of court after refusing to testify for the prosecution in the 1972 conspiracy trial of the "Harrisburg Seven" anti-war activists. Early life Horn was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1918,Bryant 2004 to a secular Jewish family of small businessmen and shopkeepers. She emigrated with her family to Canada in 1926 at the age of 8, then to New York City where she attended Brooklyn College and the Pratt Institute Library School. She first began working at a library in 1942. In 1964, she won a Humanities Fellowship to the University of Oregon where she became active in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Skoropadenko
Zoia Skoropadenko is a Ukrainian contemporary mixed-media artist, based in Monaco, known for her paintings, sculptures and sketching, and for being wrongfully suspected as a spy... She counts Michelangelo, Magritte, Corot, Matisse and Petrov Vodkin as some of her artistic influences and is inspired by the Nouveau réalisme movement. She was one of the pioneers of the 'Flash Exhibition' and is a UNESCO recognized artist. She is the creator and owner of micro-gallerLa Vitrinein Palais de La Scala in Monaco – an alternative contemporary art space for emerging artistic talent. In 2011, the Monaco government granted Zoia the official status of an Artist-Painter of Monaco. Zoia splits her time mainly between Monaco, Japan, the US, Belgium and France, where she exhibits frequently. Her widely exhibited TORSO series is considered her most controversial work as noted in publications such as the Brussels Times and France Info. Early life Born and raised in Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine, Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Ceaușescu
Zoia Ceaușescu (; 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia). Biography Zoia Ceaușescu studied at High School nr. 24 (now Jean Monnet High School) in Bucharest and graduated in 1966. She then continued her studies at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest. She received her Ph.D. in 1977 with thesis ''On Intertwining Dilations'' written under the direction of Ciprian Foias. Ceaușescu then worked as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. Her field of specialization was functional analysis. Allegedly, her parents were unhappy with their daughter's choice of doing research in mathematics, so the Institute was disbanded in 1975. She moved on to work for Institutul pentru Creație Științifică și Tehnică (INCREST, Institute for Scientific and Technical Creativity), where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky
Zoia21. Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky (18 January 1903 - 22 November 1999), also known as Zoia Krukovskaya Lagerkrans, was a Russian-Swedish artist known for landscapes and portraits painted against a gold background. She signed her paintings simply Zoia. Life She was born Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of Colonel Krukovsky and Héléne Inkina. She was educated at the Smolny Institute. After the Russian Revolution, the family moved to Moscow, where she studied at the Moscow Academy of Art with Wassily Kandinsky. She also studied in Paris for five years (1925–30), both at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and privately with Fernand Léger and Tsuguharu Foujita. In 1921, Zoia met the Swedish communist politician Karl Kilbom when he was part of a delegation at the Profintern congress held in Moscow. Zoia was serving as an interpreter, but during the congress she was arrested as a suspect in a counterrevolutionary conspiracy. Kilbom helped to get Zoia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clyde Zoia
Clyde John Zoia (May 16, 1896 – April 3, 1955) was an American football guard who played four seasons with the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Notre Dame and attended Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Illinois Woodstock is a city in (and the county seat of) McHenry County, Illinois, McHenry County, Illinois, United States. It is located 45 miles northwest of Chicago, making it one of the city's outer-most suburbs. Per the 2020 United States Census, 2020 ... References External linksJust Sports Stats {{DEFAULTSORT:Zoia, Clyde 1896 births 1955 deaths [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Ovsii
Zoia Ovsii ( uk, Зоя Овсій, born 30 August 1994) is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete competing in F51-classification throwing events. She won the gold medal in the women's club throw F51 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the bronze medal in the women's discus throw F53 event. She also won two medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ovsii is a three-time gold medalist in the women's club throw F51 event at the World Para Athletics Championships. She also won the gold medal in this event at the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin, Germany. Career Ovsii represented Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she won two medals: the silver medal in the women's club throw F51 event and the bronze medal in the women's discus throw F52 event. In 2014, Ovsii competed in paracanoeing at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Moscow, Russia and she won the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Duriagina
Zoia Antonivna Duriagina (born 8 June 1950 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian scientist, materials engineer, doctor of sciences, professor, full member of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, a member of Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the head of the Department of Applied Materials Science and Materials Processing at the Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Transport, which is part of Lviv Polytechnic National University. She has an entry in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. Biography Zoia Duriagina was born on 8 June 1950 in the Lviv. After graduating from Lviv Secondary School № 6 in 1967, she entered the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1972 with a degree in metallurgical engineering in the specialty "Physics of Metals." In the same year she entered graduate school at the Department of Physics of Metals and Materials Science. After successfully graduating from graduate school from 1975 to 2013, she worked at Lviv Polytechnic as a junior researcher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoia Gaidai
Zoia Mikhailovna Gaidai (b. in Tambov – d. 21 April 1965 in Kiev) was a Soviet and Ukrainian opera soprano. She was an artist of wide creativity, with a bright vocal range and talent who staged more than 50 musicals of the works of Ukrainian and Russian composers, as well as works of the classical repertoire of Western European composers. She kept close contact with other composers of her time, such as Mykola Lysenko, Boris Lyatoshynsky, Viktor Kosenko, and Levko Revutsky. Biography In 1927, Gaidai graduated from the Tambov Music College ( N. V. Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama), where she studied under the guidance of Olena Muravyova. From 1928 to 1955, she was soloist at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater, and from 1930 to 1934 at the Kharkov theater. During World War II she was evacuated to Ufa along with her husband, singer-tenor Nikolai Platonov (Nicholas Platonovich Slutsky), and other artists of the Kiev Opera. From 1947 to 1965, she taught at the Kiev Conser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
