Zinoviev,
Zinovyev,
Zinovieff (), or
Zinovieva (feminine; Зино́вьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek
Zenobios.
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Notable people with the surname include:
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Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev (1854–1931), Russian politician (Governor of St Petersburg) under Nicholas II
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Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
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Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
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Ivan Zinoviev (1905–1942), NKVD captain and Hero of the Soviet Union
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Peter Zinovieff (1933–2021), British inventor
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Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), a Russian writer
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Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988), Finnish composer
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Sergei Zinovjev (born 1980), Russian ice hockey player
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Sofka Zinovieff (b. 1961), a British journalist and author
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Nikolai Zinoviev, fictional character from the video game
See also
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Zinoviev letter, a fraudulent letter that sparked a political scandal in Britain in 1924
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Russian destroyer Azard (1916), later renamed Zinoviev