Vladimir (disambiguation)

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Vladimir (Bulgarian: Владими́р, Russian: Влади́мир, Serbian: Вла́димир) is the Bulgarian, Russian, and Serbian spelling of a Slavic name of Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic origin. It is directly related to the Germanic forename Waldemar/Valdemar.

The name may refer to one of the following:

Places

• Vladimir, city in Russia
• Vladimir-Volynsky or Volodymyr-Volynskyi, city in Ukraine
• Vladimir-Suzdal, medieval principality
• Vladimir, Gorj, commune in Gorj County, Romania

People

• Vladimir the Bold, commander of the Muscovite armies in the 14th century
• Vladimir of Bulgaria, King of Bulgaria
• Vladimir Guerrero, baseball player
• Vladimir I of Kiev (980–1015), a medieval ruler of Kievan Rus
• Vladimir Monomakh, Veliky Knyaz of Kievan Rus, prince of Kiev; also ruled in Rostov and Suzdal
• Vladimir II Mstislavich, Prince of Dorogobuzh, Vladimir, and Volyn, Slutsk, Tripolye and Grand Prince of Kiev
• Vladimir of Novgorod (1020–1052), Prince of Novgorod
• Vladimir III Rurikovich, Prince of Pereyaslavl, Smolensk and Grand Prince of Kiev
• Jovan Vladimir, a ruler of Doclea and a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church
• Metropolitan Vladimir (disambiguation page)
• Vladimir Putin
• Vlad II Dracul (1390-1447), Prince of Wallachia and Governor of Transylvania
• Vlad III Dracula, aka Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476), Prince of Wallachia

Fictional characters

• Vladimir (character), also known as Vladimir "Albert" and "Didi", a character in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
• Vovochka, common character in Russian jokes
• Vlad Dracula, aka Count Dracula

See also: Volodymyr, Vladimirov, Vladimirsky, and Vladimirovsky