Avdonin
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Avdonin (Russian: Авдонин; masculine) or Adonina (Russian: Авдонина; feminine) is a Russian last name.[1] Variants of this last name include Avdokhin/Avdokhina (Авдохин/Авдохина), Avdoshin/Avdoshina (Авдошин/Авдошина), Avdyunin/Avdyunina (Авдюнин/Авдюнина), and Avdyushin/Avdyushina (Авдюшин/Авдюшина).[1]
They all derive from the Russian given names Avdey (or its rare form Avdon) (male)—meaning servant, servile—and Yevdokiya (or its form Avdotya) (female)—meaning benevolence, acceptance, goodwill.[1]
- People with the last name
- Alexander Avdonin (b. 1932), the first known person to start exhuming the grave of the murdered royal Romanov family
- Juri Avdonin, Estonian association football player for Tartu JK Welco Elekter
- Tatiana Avdonina, Belarusian water skier, 2000 trick cable ski champion
- Yelena Avdonina, librarian, casualty of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis
- Fictional characters
- Avdonina, a character from the 1991 movie Khishchniki; played by Svetlana Nemolyaeva
References
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Fedosyuk, entry on "Авдонин".
Sources
[edit | edit source]- Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary). Москва, 2006. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
