Olesya (given Name)

Olesya (

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

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Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

: Олеся), may also be spelt Olessia or Olesia, is a feminine given name. Olesya is a Slavonic name that derives from a word "lyess" (Ukrainian "ліс", Russian "лес" - forest) and means "a girl from the forest", "a girl living in the forest". A different version of the origin of the name states that Olesya is a variant of the name Alexandra, and thus acquires the meaning of "protector". The names Alesya and

Lesya ''Lesya'', according to the Jain theory of karma, is the coloring of the soul on account of its association with the karmic matter. The colour of ''leśyā'' varies from person to person depending on the psychic states and mental activities beh ...

can be considered variants of Olesya. Notable people with the name include: * Olesya Aliyeva (b. 1977), Russian alpine skier * Olesya Babushkina (b. 1989), Belarusian gymnast * Olesya Bakunova (b. 1980), Belarusian sprint canoer * Olesya Barel (b. 1960), Russian basketball player * Olesya Belugina (b. 1984), Russian gymnast * Olesya Chumakova (b. 1981), Russian middle-distance runner *

Olesya Dudnik Olesya lternate spelling OlessiaDudnik (Олеся Віталіївна Дудник; born August 15, 1974 in Zaporizhia, Ukraine) is a gymnastics coach and former artistic gymnast who competed internationally for the Soviet Union between 1988 an ...

(b. 1974), Ukrainian gymnast and coach * Olesya Forsheva (b. 1979), Russian athlete * Olesya Hudyma (b. 1980), Ukrainian artist, poet and journalist *

Olesya Kurochkina Olesya Kurochkina is a Russian football striker, currently playing for Zvezda Perm in the Russian Women's Football Championship The Russian Women's Football Championship (russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди � ...

(b. 1983), Russian football player * Olesya Mashina (b. 1987), Russian footballer *

Olesya Nazarenko Olesya may refer to: * Olesya (given name) Olesya (Ukrainian and Russian: Олеся), may also be spelt Olessia or Olesia, is a feminine given name. Olesya is a Slavonic name that derives from a word "lyess" (Ukrainian "ліс", Russian "лес ...

(born 1976), amateur wrestler, judoka and sambo player from Turkmenistan *

Olesya Nurgalieva Olesya Leonidovna Nurgalieva (born 9 January 1976 in Perm Krai; russian: Олеся Леонидовна Нургалиева) is a Russian ultramarathon runner. She won the Two Oceans Marathon 3 times and the Comrades Marathon twice, and together ...

(b. 1976), Russian ultramarathon runner *

Olesya Povh Olesya Povh ( uk, Олеся Іванівна Повх (''Olesya Ivanivna Povkh''); born 18 October 1987) is a Ukrainian former sprint athlete who specialized in the 100 metres. Her personal best times include 11.08 seconds in the 100 m, ac ...

(b. 1987), Ukrainian sprinter *

Olesya Rostovskaya Olesya Rostovskaya ( rus, Олеся Ростовская; born 6 January 1975) is a Russian composer, theremin player, carillonneur, organist, and Russian zvon bell-ringer. Biography Olesya Rostovskaya studied piano at Anna Artobolevskaya cla ...

(b. 1975), Russian composer,

theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named afte ...

player,

carillonneur A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmonio ...

, organist, Russian zvon bell-ringer *

Olesya Rulin Olesya Yurivna Rulina (russian: Oлeся Юрьевна Pулина; born March 17, 1986) is a Russian-American actress. She is best known for co-starring in all three films of the ''High School Musical'' franchise as Kelsi Nielsen. She also star ...

(b. 1986), Russian-American actress *

Olesya Stefanko Olesia Stefanko ( uk, Олеся Стефанко; (born June 25, 1988) is a Ukrainian lawyer and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Ukraine Universe 2011 and represented her country in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, where she was 1st runner up. ...

(b. 1988), Ukrainian beauty pageant winner * Olesya Syreva (b. 1983), Russian athlete * Olesya Velichko (b. 1981), Russian modern pentathlete * Olesya Vladykina (b. 1988), Russian Paralympic swimmer * Olesya Truntaeva (b. 1980), Russian footballer * Olesya Zabara (b. 1982), Russian triple jumper * Olesya Zamula (b. 1984), Azerbaijani wrestler * Olesya Zykina (b. 1980), Russian athlete {{Given name Feminine given names