Alyona
Alyona or Aliona is a Russian female given name derived from the Ancient Greek name Ἑλένη, Helenē. See "Helen" for its history. For a long time it was considered to be a colloquial variant of the name Elena. During the Soviet times people had difficulties to officially register the name Alyona, with bureaucrats referring to the dictionaries that stated that "Alyona" is a variant of "Elena". In modern times it is no longer a problem in Russia, keeping in mind that legally Elena and Alyona are considered to be different names.
Notable people with the name include:
- Alyona Alekhina, Russian-American snowboarder
- Alyona Alyona, Ukrainian rapper
- Alyona Apina, Soviet/Russian singer
- Aliona Babak, Ukrainian politician
- Alyona Babenko, Russian actress
- Aliona Bolsova, Spanish-Moldovan tennis player
- Aliona Doletskaya, Russian journalist
- Aliona Dubitskaya, Belarusian shot putter
- Alyona Khmelnitskaya, Russian actress
- Alyona Khomich, Russian ice hockey player
- Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer
- Alyona Mikhaylova, Russian actress
- Alyona Minkovski, Russian-American journalist
- Aliona Moon, Moldovan singer
- Alyona Osmanova, Ukrainian model
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- Alyona Polunina, Russian filmmaker
- Alyona Rassohyna, Ukrainian mixed martial artist
- Aljona Savchenko, Ukrainian-born German pair skater
- Alyona Shamotina, Ukrainian hammer thrower
- Alyona Shchennikova, American gymnast
- Alyona Starovoitova, Russian ice hockey player
- Alyona Subbotina, Kazakhstani model
- Alyona Torganova, Russian singer
- Aliona Vilani, Russian-Kazakh dancer
Fictional characters
- Alyona Ivanovna, character in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky