Nadezhda (given name)

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Nadezhda or Nadežda (Cyrillic Надежда) is a Slavic female given name popular in Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia and other Slavic countries. It means "hope" in Bulgarian and Russian, with closely related forms in most other Slavic languages.

Nadezhda is the name of:

In politics and news media:

• Nadezhda Mihaylova Bulgarian foreign minister 1997-2001, also leader of the UDF from 2002 to 2005
• Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalina (1901–1932), second wife of Joseph Stalin
• Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (1869–1939), Russian Marxist revolutionary and wife of Vladimir Lenin
• Nadezhda Joffe (1906–1999), Soviet Trotskyist and daughter of Soviet leader Adolph Joffe
• Nadezhda Sigida (1862–1889), Russian revolutionary and central figure of the Kara katorga tragedy
• Nadezhda Bondarenko, Transnistrian politician and candidate for President in the 2006 election
• Nadezhda Vasilyeva (died 1971), one of several women claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
• Nadezhda Tylik, a Kursk sailor's mother who was forcibly sedated on an internationally distributed news clip
• Nadezhda Chaikova (died 1996), Russian correspondent known for exposés of Russian military atrocities and close contacts with the Chechen rebels

In sports and gaming:

• Nadezhda Olizarenko (born 1953), Olympic gold and bronze medal-winning Soviet middle distance runner
• Nadezhda Tkachenko (born 1948), Olympic gold medal-winning Soviet pentathlete
• Nadezhda Chizhova (born 1945), Olympic gold, silver and bronze medal-winning Soviet shot putter
• Nadezhda Besfamilnaya (born 1950), Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet sprinter
• Nadezhda Ilyina (born 1949), Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet sprinter
• Nadezhda Belonenko (1911–1964), Soviet Russian tennis player
• Nadezhda Kosintseva(born 1985), Russian chess player
• Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili (1933–1994), Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet track and field athlete
• Nadezhda Konyayeva (born 1931), Olympic bronze medal-winning Soviet javelin thrower
• Nadezhda Evstyukhina (born 1988), Russian weightlifter
• Nadezhda Frolenkova (born 1989), Ukrainian ice dancer
• Nadezhda Ostapchuk (born 1980), world champion Belarusian shot putter
• Nadezhda Vinogradova (born 1958), Soviet heptathlete
• Nadezhda Wijenberg (born 1964), Russian-born long-distance runner who represented the Netherlands at the Olympics

In the arts:

• Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899–1980), Russian writer and wife of poet Osip Mandelstam
• Nadezhda von Meck (1831–1894), Russian widow best known for her relationship with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Nadezhda Udaltsova (1886–1961), Russian avant-garde artist
• Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952), Russian humorist writer
• Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel (1868–1913), Russian soprano
• Nadezhda Repina (1809–1867), Russian actress and soprano
• Nadezhda Plevitskaya (1884–1940), Russian singer
• Nadežda Petrović (1873–1915), Serbian painter

In the military

• Nadezhda Durova (1783–1866), woman who became a decorated soldier during the Napoleonic wars

[edit] See also

• Nadia
• Nadine