Alyosha

Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive (hypocorism) of the name Alexey and may refer to:

People

• Alyosha (singer) (born 1986), Ukrainian pop singer
• Alyosha Dzhaparidze (1880 – 1918), Georgian Bolshevik
• Alyosha Svanidze (1886 – 1941), Georgian Bolshevik
• Alyosha Abrahamyan (born 1945), Armenian football player
• Alyosha Andonov (born 1961), Bulgarian football coach
• Alyosha Schneider (born 1993), Canadian actor
• Alyosha Mirny, pen name of an unknown Russian blogger

Fictional people

• Alyosha Karamazov, protagonist of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
• Alyosha Popovich, Russian folk hero
• Alyosha the Pot, protagonist of Tolstoy's short story of the same name
• Alyosha Skvortsov, protagonist of the 1959 film Ballad of a Soldier
• Alyosha Stalina, protagonist of Rururu Kondou's manga Aлёша!
• Alyosha Kravinoff, real name of comic book villain Kraven the Hunter II

Monuments

• Alyosha Monument, Murmansk, Russia WWII monument
• Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv, Bulgarian WWII monument
  • "Alyosha (song)", a song inspired by the Plovdiv monument
• Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, Estonian WWII monument sometimes called Alyosha

Other

• Ivan & Alyosha, Seattle folk-pop duo
• Alyosha's Galoshes, 1925 book of nursery rhymes by Maria Shkapskaya
• Farewell Alyosha, 1991 short story collection by Oya Baydar