Alyosha Explained

Alyosha (ru|Алёша), also transliterated as Aliosha, Aliocha, etc., is an affectionate diminutive (hypocorism) of the name Alexey. It may refer to:

People

• Aliocha (born Aliocha Allard; 1984), French film director
• , French actor, director, screenwriter and producer .
• Aliocha Schneider (born 1993), Canadian actor
• (born 1979), French journalist, essayist and university professor
• Alyosha (singer) (born 1986), Ukrainian pop singer
• Alyosha Abrahamyan (1945–2018), Armenian football player
• Alyosha Andonov (born 1961), Bulgarian football coach
• (1913–1986), Russian gypsy singer
• Alyosha Dzhaparidze (1880–1918), Georgian Bolshevik
• Alyosha Efros, American computer scientist
• Alyosha Svanidze (1886–1941), Georgian Bolshevik

Fictional characters

• Alyosha Karamazov, protagonist of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
• Alyosha Kravinoff, real name of comic book villain Kraven the Hunter II
• Alyosha Popovich, Russian folk hero
• Alyosha Skvortsov, protagonist of the 1959 film Ballad of a Soldier
• Alyosha the Pot, protagonist of Tolstoy's short story of the same name

Monuments

• Alyosha Monument, Murmansk, Russia World War II monument
• Alyosha Monument, Plovdiv, Bulgarian World War II monument
  • "Alyosha" (song), a 1966 song inspired by the Plovdiv monument
• Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, Estonian World War II monument sometimes called Alyosha

Other

• Alyosha, a song by Norwegian singer Susanne_Sundfør on her 2023 album Blómi

See also

• • • • Ivan & Alyosha, an American indie rock band
• Aljoša