Zinaida
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About Zinaida
A name is a bright, sharp sound and an air of antiquity, Zinaida is associated with genus of white-winged doves, a first-century saint and doctor, and the highest of the Greek gods. This particular form is used in Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, the Ukraine, and Belarus, with Zenaida, Zenaide, and Zénaïde are used elsewhere.
The name has been notably borne by Zinaida Portnova, a Soviet partisan remembered for sabotaging and poisoning German troops, along with painter Zinaida Serebriakova, singer Zinaida Kupriyanovich, poet Zinaida Gippius, and Princess Zenaida Yusupova.
Zinaida also appeared in the 1860 novella, First Love, by Ivan Turgenev, which was later used as part of the inspiration behind an early Kirsten Dunst movie, Lover's Prayer in which Dunst plays Zinaida.
Pronounced zin-AH-ee-duh.
As of October 2026, Zinaida ranked #18417 in US births in 2017 SSA.
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Famous Zinaidas
- Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova
Russian noblewoman at the end of the Romanov dynasty
- Zinaida Gippius
Russian poet
- Zinaida Reich
Russian actress
- Zinaida Greceanii
former prime minister of Moldova
- Zinaida Portnova
Soviet Nazi resistor and Hero
- Zinaida Lvovna Volkova
daughter of Soviet leader Leon Trotsky
- Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova
Russian painter
- Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna
Ukrainian handball player
Zinaida in pop culture
- Zinida
lion,tamer, in love with Bazano and mistress to Briquet, in the Russian play 'Tot, kto poluchaet poshchochiny' (1914) by Leonid Andreyev (published in English, as 'He Who Gets Slapped', in 1922)
- Pronounced \zee
nah,EE,dah\