Жданов

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Russian[edit]

Viktor Zhdanov

Etymology[edit]

Apparently from the Slavic male name Ждан (Ždan), cf. Old Novgorodian Жьданъ (Žĭdanŭ).[1]

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Proper noun[edit]

Жда́нов (Ždánovm anim (genitive Жда́нова, nominative plural Жда́новы, genitive plural Жда́новых, feminine Жда́нова)

  1. a surname, Zhdanov; particularly, Soviet virologist, epidemiologist and healthcare organizer Viktor Zhdanov, 14 February 1914, to 14 July 1987. In 1958, Zhdanov, as Deputy Minister of Health for the Soviet Union, called on the World Health Assembly to undertake a global initiative to eradicate smallpox, along with American physician and epidemiologist William Foege
    Ви́ктор Жда́новVíktor ŽdánovViktor Zhdanov

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Old Russian birch bark letters (2020), “жьданѫ”. National Research University Higher School of Economics; Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.