Zoya
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Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a feminine Russian and Ukrainian first name, a variant of Zoe, meaning "life". It may refer to:
[edit] People
- Zoya Akhtar (born 1974), contemporary Indian film director
- Zoya Douchine (born 1983), German figure skater
- Zoya Fyodorova (1909–1981), Russian film star
- Zoya Hasan, Indian academic and political scientist
- Zoya Ivanova (born 1952), retired long-distance runner
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union
- 1793 Zoya, an asteroid named after her
- Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008), Russian Christian writer, activist and soviet dissident
- Zoya Phan (born 1980), political activist for the Karen people of Burma currently living in the UK
- Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist
- Zoya Smirnow, survivor of a corp of twelve Russian girls who disguised themselves as boys to join the army
- Zoya Spasovkhodskaya (born 1949), Soviet heptathlete
[edit] In fiction
- Zoya, a nurse and doctor in training in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward
- Zoya (novel), a 1988 novel by Danielle Steele
- Zoya (1995 film), a 1995 TV film based on the novel
- Zoya (film), a 1944 Soviet film
- Stevie and Zoya, a series of animated shorts seen on MTV
[edit] Places
- Zöyä, Tatar name of the village of Sviyazhsk
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