Zinoviev

Zinoviev, Zinovyev, Zinovieff (Russian: Зино́вьев), or Zinovieva (feminine; Зино́вьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek Zenobios.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev (1854–1931), Russian politician (Governor of St Petersburg) under Nicholas II
• Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
• Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
• Ivan Zinoviev (1905–1942), NKVD captain and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Peter Zinovieff (1933–2021), British inventor
• Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), a Russian writer
• Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988), Finnish composer
• Sergei Zinovjev (born 1980), Russian ice hockey player
• Sofka Zinovieff (b. 1961), a British journalist and author
• Nikolai Zinoviev, fictional character from the video game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

See also

• Zinoviev letter, a fraudulent letter that sparked a political scandal in Britain in 1924
• Russian destroyer Azard (1916), later renamed Zinoviev

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 594. ISBN 0-19-211592-8. Zinovyev [-] Russian:patr. from the given name Zinovi, a Russ. form of Gk Zenobios [...] Its popularity in Eastern Europe is largely due to the veneration in the Orthodox Church of an early Christian martyr, a priest and physician who was killed in Asia Minor at the end of the 3rd century.