Nadezhda

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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:

In the arts:

In the military

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

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