Avdonin (russian: Авдонин; masculine) or Adonina (russian: Авдонина; feminine) is a Russian last name.Fedosyuk
entry on "Авдонин"
Variants of this last name include Avdokhin/Avdokhina (/), Avdoshin/Avdoshina (/),

Avdyunin Avdyunin (russian: Авдюнин; masculine) or Avdyunina (; feminine) is a Russian last name, a variant of Avdonin Avdonin (russian: Авдонин; masculine) or Adonina (russian: Авдонина; feminine) is a Russian last name.Fedosyukentry o ...

/Avdyunina (/), and Avdyushin/Avdyushina (/). They all derive from the Russian

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...

Avdey Avdey (russian: Авде́й) is an uncommonNikonov, p. 96 Russian male first name.Superanskaya p. 21 The Russian language borrowed the name from Byzantine Christianity in the form of Avdiy ( or Superanskaya p. 31), but in the col ...

(or its rare form Avdon) (male)—meaning ''servant'', ''servile''—and

Yevdokiya ''Yevdokiya'' (russian: Евдокия) is a 1961 Soviet melodrama film directed by Tatyana Lioznova. Plot The film tells about the worker Yevdokim and his wife Yevdokiya, who live in a small town in the province and raise foster children. Their ...

(or its form Avdotya) (female)—meaning ''

benevolence Benevolence or Benevolent may refer to: * Benevolent (band) * Benevolence (phrenology), a faculty in the discredited theory of phrenology * "Benevolent" (song), a song by Tory Lanez * Benevolence (tax), a forced loan imposed by English kings from ...

'', ''acceptance'', ''goodwill''. ;People with the last name *

Alexander Avdonin Alexander Nikolayevich Avdonin (russian: Александр Николаевич Авдонин; born 10 June 1932) is a Russian who was the first known person, in 1979, to begin exhuming the grave of the seven murdered Romanovs and four members ...

(b. 1932), the first known person to start exhuming the grave of the murdered royal

Romanov family The House of Romanov (also transcribed Romanoff; rus, Романовы, Románovy, rɐˈmanəvɨ) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after the Tsarina, Anastasia Romanova, was married to th ...

*Juri Avdonin, Estonian association football player for

Tartu JK Welco Elekter Tartu Jalgpalliklubi Welco is a semi-professional football club based in Tartu, Estonia. The club was founded in 2008 when group of university students decided to participate in IV liiga South, which is 6th and also the lowest tier of Estonian f ...

* Tatiana Avdonina, Belarusian water skier, 2000 trick cable ski champion *Yelena Avdonina, librarian, casualty of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis ;Fictional characters *Avdonina, a character from the 1991 movie ''Khishchniki''; played by

Svetlana Nemolyaeva Svetlana Vladimirovna Nemolyaeva (russian: link=no, Светлана Владимировна Немоляева; born 18 April 1937, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress of film and theatre. She is the widow of Alexander Lazarev.(29 July 201 ...

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*Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (''Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary''). Москва, 2006. {{Surname __NOTOC__ Russian-language surnames Russian culture