Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive (hypocorism) of the name

Alexey Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Ale ...

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People

Alyosha (singer) Olena Oleksandrivna Kucher-Topolya ( uk, Олена Олександрівна Кучер-Тополя; born 14 May 1986), better known by her stage name Alyosha ( uk, Aльоша), is a Ukrainian singer. Career Early life Alyosha was born on 1 ...

(born 1986), Ukrainian pop singer *

Alyosha Abrahamyan Alyosha Abrahamyan ( hy, Ալյոշա Աբրահամյան; 29 August 1945 – 26 August 2018) was an Armenian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for FC Ararat Yerevan. He has been described as an Armenian football legend. Information He ...

(1945–2018), Armenian football player *

Alyosha Andonov Alyosha Andonov (Bulgarian: Альошa Андонов) (born 31 January 1961 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian football head coach who is a former coach of PFC Belasitsa Petrich. Andonov graduated from the Higher Training School of NSA. He has been a pr ...

(born 1961), Bulgarian football coach * Alyosha Dzhaparidze (1880–1918), Georgian Bolshevik *

Alyosha Efros Alexei "Alyosha" A. Efros is a Russian-American computer scientist and professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is widely recognized for his contributions to computer vision and his work has been referenced in media outlets including W ...

, American computer scientist *

Alyosha Svanidze Alexander Semyonovich "Alyosha" Svanidze ( ka, ალექსანდრე სვანიძე; russian: Александр Семёнович Сванидзе) (1886 – 20 August 1941) was a Georgian Old Bolshevik, politician and historian. ...

(1886–1941), Georgian Bolshevik

Fictional characters

Alyosha Karamazov Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov (russian: Алёша Карамазов), usually referred to simply as Alyosha, is the protagonist in the 1880 novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, being ...

, protagonist of Dostoyevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'' *

Alyosha Kravinoff Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff; Russian language, Russian: Сергей Кравинов) is a fictional Character (arts), character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Debuting in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' issue ...

, real name of comic book villain Kraven the Hunter II *

Alyosha Popovich Alyosha Popovich (russian: Алёша Попович, literally ''Alexey, son of the priest''), is a folk hero in the Rus' folklore, a bogatyr (i.e., a medieval knight-errant). He is the youngest of the three main bogatyrs, the other two being ...

, Russian folk hero *

Alyosha Skvortsov ''Ballad of a Soldier'' (russian: Баллада о солдате, ''Ballada o soldate''), is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigory Chukhray and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. While set during World War II, ''Ballad of a So ...

, protagonist of the 1959 film ''Ballad of a Soldier'' *

Alyosha the Pot "Alyosha the Pot" (russian: Алеша Горшок 'Alyosha Gorshok'' is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy (1905) about the life and death of a simple, uncomplaining worker. It was published after Tolstoy's death in 1911 and received high pra ...

, protagonist of Tolstoy's short story of the same name

Monuments

Alyosha Monument, Murmansk To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War (russian: Защитникам Советского Заполярья в годы Великой Отечественной войны), commonly called Alyosha (russian: 'А� ...

, Russia World War II monument *

Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv Alyosha (an affectionate diminutive of Aleksey) is an tall reinforced concrete statue of a Soviet soldier on Bunarjik Hill in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The statue tops a pedestal lined with granite. The memorial commemorates Soviet casualties incur ...

, Bulgarian World War II monument ** "Alyosha" (song), a 1966 song inspired by the Plovdiv monument *

Bronze Soldier of Tallinn The Bronze Soldier ( et, Pronkssõdur, russian: Бронзовый солдат, ''Bronzovyj soldat'') is the informal name of a controversial Soviet World War II war memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, built at the site of several war graves, which w ...

, Estonian World War II monument sometimes called Alyosha

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