Zinoviev, Zinovyev, Zinovieff (russian: Зино́вьев), or Zinovieva (feminine; Зино́вьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek ''
Zenobios''.
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Notable people with the surname include:
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Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev (1854–1931), Russian politician (Governor of St Petersburg) under Nicholas II
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Alexander Zinoviev
Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev ( Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Зино́вьев; October 29, 1922 – May 10, 2006) was a Soviet philosopher, writer, sociologist, and journalist.
Coming from a poor peasant fami ...
(1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
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Aleksandr Zinovyev (footballer) (born 1979), Russian footballer
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Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
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Ivan Zinoviev (1905–1942), NKVD captain and
Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
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Peter Zinovieff
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(1933–2021), British inventor
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Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal (russian: Ли́дия Дми́триевна Зино́вьева-Анниба́л) (1866–1907) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist.Chris Tomei, 'Lidia Dmitrievna Zinov`eva-Annibal', in Katherine Wilson, ...
(1866–1907), a Russian writer
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Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988), Finnish composer
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Sergei Zinovjev
Sergei Olegovich Zinovjev (russian: Серге́й Олегович Зиновьев; born March 4, 1980) is a Russian former professional ice hockey centre and General Manager of his original club, Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hocke ...
, Russian ice hockey player
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Sofka Zinovieff
Sofka Zinovieff (born 1961) is a British author and journalist.
Early life
Zinovieff was born in London. Her parents were Peter Zinovieff and Victoria Gala Heber-Percy. Her paternal grandparents were White Russians who had left Soviet Russia f ...
(b. 1961), a British journalist and author
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Nikolai Zinoviev
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Appearances
P - Playable character (campaign/unlockab ...
, fictional character from the video game ''
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis''
See also
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Zinoviev letter, a faked letter in 1924 British politics
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Russian destroyer ''Azard'' (1916), later renamed ''Zinoviev''
References
{{surname, Zinoviev
Russian-language surnames