Avdonin (Russian: Авдонин; masculine) or Adonina (Russian: Авдонина; feminine) is a Russian last name. Variants of this last name include Avdokhin/Avdokhina (Авдохин/Авдохина), Avdoshin/Avdoshina (Авдошин/Авдошина), Avdyunin/Avdyunina (Авдюнин/Авдюнина), and Avdyushin/Avdyushina (Авдюшин/Авдюшина).
They all derive from the Russian given names Avdey (or its rare form Avdon) (male)—meaning servant, servile—and Yevdokiya (or its form Avdotya) (female)—meaning benevolence, acceptance, goodwill.
- People with the last name
- Alexander Avdonin (b. 1932), the first known person to start exhuming the grave of the murdered royal Romanov family
- Juri Avdonin, Estonian association football player for Tartu JK Welco Elekter
- Tatiana Avdonina, Belarusian water skier, 2000 trick cable ski champion
- Yelena Avdonina, librarian, casualty of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis
- Fictional characters
- Avdonina, a character from the 1991 movie Khishchniki; played by Svetlana Nemolyaeva
References
Notes
- ^ Fedosyuk, entry on "Авдонин".
Sources
- Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary). Москва, 2006. ISBN 978-5-89349-216-3
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