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 ...
and may refer to:
People
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Alyosha (singer) (born 1986), Ukrainian pop singer
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Alyosha Abrahamyan (1945–2018), Armenian football player
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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 p ...
(born 1961), Bulgarian football coach
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Alyosha Dzhaparidze (1880–1918), Georgian Bolshevik
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Alyosha Efros, American computer scientist
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Alyosha Svanidze (1886–1941), Georgian Bolshevik
Fictional characters
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Alyosha Karamazov, protagonist of Dostoyevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov''
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Alyosha Kravinoff, real name of comic book villain Kraven the Hunter II
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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
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Alyosha Skvortsov, protagonist of the 1959 film ''Ballad of a Soldier''
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Alyosha the Pot, protagonist of Tolstoy's short story of the same name
Monuments
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Alyosha Monument, Murmansk, Russia World War II monument
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Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv, Bulgarian World War II monument
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"Alyosha" (song), a 1966 song inspired by the Plovdiv monument
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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, whi ...
, Estonian World War II monument sometimes called Alyosha
See also
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Ivan & Alyosha
Ivan & Alyosha is an American indie rock band from Seattle, formed in 2007 by Tim Wilson and Ryan Carbary. They were later joined by Pete Wilson (Tim's brother) and Tim Kim and added Cole Mauro to complete the group. In 2009 the band was recogn ...
, an American indie rock band
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Aliocha Schneider
Aliocha Schneider (; born 21 September 1993) is a Canadian actor and musician who was born in Paris, but grew up in Quebec. He is most noted for his roles in the films ''Aurelie Laflamme's Diary (Le Journal d'Aurélie Laflamme)'',Marie-Claude Gi ...
(born 1993), Canadian actor
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