Zinoviev

Zinoviev, Zinovyev, Zinovieff (), or Zinovieva (feminine; Зино́вьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek Zenobios. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev (1854–1931), Russian politician (Governor of St Petersburg) under Nicholas II Alexander Zinoviev (1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician Ivan Zinoviev (1905–1942), NKVD captain and Hero of the Soviet Union Peter Zinovieff (1933–2021), British inventor Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907), a Russian writer Sauli Zinovjev (b. 1988), Finnish composer Sergei Zinovjev (born 1980), Russian ice hockey player Sofka Zinovieff (b. 1961), a British journalist and author Nikolai Zinoviev, fictional character from the video game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

== See also == Zinoviev letter, a fraudulent letter that sparked a political scandal in Britain in 1924 Russian destroyer Azard (1916), later renamed Zinoviev