Zoya
Encyclopedia
Zoya is a feminine Russian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe
Zoe (name)
Zoe is a feminine first name, which came from ancient Greece and means "life" in Greek.-People:*Zoë , English pop star *Zoey, J-Pop singer *Zoe of Rome Zoe (and variants) is a feminine first name, which came from ancient Greece and means "life" in Greek.-People:*Zoë (singer), English pop star...

, meaning "life". It may refer to:

People

  • Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
    Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
    Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, alternatively Romanised as Kosmodem'yanskaya was a Soviet partisan, and a Hero of the Soviet Union...

     (1923–1941), a Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union
    • 1793 Zoya
      1793 Zoya
      1793 Zoya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 28, 1968 by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova at Nauchnyj. It is named after Soviet world war 2 hero Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.- External links :*...

      , an asteroid named after her
  • Zoya Krakhmalnikova
    Zoya Krakhmalnikova
    Zoya Alexandrovna Krakhmalnikova was a Russian Christian writer, of Ukrainian origin. She was an activist and former Soviet dissident who was repeatedly arrested by the authorities of the former Soviet Union for her publications.- Early life and career :Krakhmalnikova was born in the city of...

     (1929-2008), a Russian Christian
    Christian
    A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

     writer, activist and soviet dissident
  • Zoya Phan
    Zoya Phan
    Zoya Phan is a high profile exiled political activist from Burma of Karen descent. Currently, she resides in the United Kingdom, where she is International Coordinator of the human rights organization Burma Campaign UK...

     (b. 1980), a political activist for the Karen people
    Karen people
    The Karen or Kayin people , are a Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic group which resides primarily in southern and southeastern Burma . The Karen make up approximately 7 percent of the total Burmese population of approximately 50 million people...

     of Burma currently living in the UK
  • Zoya Spasovkhodskaya
    Zoya Spasovkhodskaya
    Zoya Spasovkhodskaya is a former heptathlete from the Soviet Union, who was born as Zoya Baykalova. A winner of the bronze medal at the 1974 European Championships, she set the first world best year performance in 1980, gaining a total number of 6049 points on July 13, 1980 at a meet in...

     (b. 1949), Soviet heptathlete

In fiction

  • Zoya, a nurse and doctor in training in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward
  • Zoya (novel)
    Zoya (novel)
    Zoya is a novel written by Danielle Steele. Zoya Konstantinovna Ossupov is a Russian countess, a young cousin to Czar Nicholas II. Escaping the Russian Revolution with her grandmother and a loyal retainer, she arrives in Paris, penniless, where she must carve a new life for herself and her loved...

    , a 1988 novel by Danielle Steele
  • Zoya (1995 film), a 1995 TV film based on the novel
  • Zoya (film)
    Zoya (film)
    Zoya is a 1944 Soviet war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:*Galina Vodyanitskaya as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya*Tamara Altseva as Zoya's Teacher*Aleksey Batalov*Anatoli Kuznetsov as Boris Fomin...

    , a 1944 Soviet film
  • Stevie and Zoya
    Stevie and Zoya
    Stevie and Zoya is an animated series that appeared first on MTV in the late 1980s. The one-minute shorts were produced by Joe Horne, who later worked for Disney and on Class of 3000...

    , a series of animated shorts seen on MTV
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