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
Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev, in russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Зино́вьев, born in Koporye on 16 May 1854 and died in Rome on 7 February 1931, was a Russian politician, privy counsellor (1906), Civil Governor of S ...
(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 famil ...
(1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
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Aleksandr Zinovyev (footballer)
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Zinovyev (russian: Александр Владимирович Зиновьев; born 20 February 1979 in Tobolsk) is a former Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanni ...
(born 1979), Russian footballer
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Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev, . Transliterated ''Grigorii Evseevich Zinov'ev'' according to the Library of Congress system. (born Hirsch Apfelbaum, – 25 August 1936), known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky (russian: Ов ...
(1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
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Ivan Zinoviev
Ivan Dmitrievich Zinoviev (Russian: Иван Дмитриевич Зиновьев; 17 January 1905 – 1942) was a Red Army colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union. Zinoviev began his military service with the OGPU Border Troops and fought against ...
(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
Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021) was a British engineer and composer. In the late 1960s, his company, Electronic Music Studios (EMS), made the VCS3, a synthesizer used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd a ...
(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
Sauli Zinovjev (born 1988) is a Finnish composer. Zinovjev was born in Lahti, and studied composition in Sibelius Academy (2010–15) and in HfM-Karlsruhe (2013–14) under guidance of Tapio Nevanlinna and prof. Wolfgang Rihm. Zinovjev's works a ...
(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