
1) Russian girl name 2) Slavic feminine given name
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(from the article `Aliger, Margarita Iosifovna`) ...in Moscow from 1934 to 1937 at what later became the Gorky Literary Institute. In the late 1930s she wrote prose sketches and verse diaries of her ...
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Zoya is a Russian name for girls. The meaning is `life, growth` The name Zoya is most commonly given to English and Welsh girls. (7 times more often than to American girls.) The name sounds like: Zea, Zia, Zoie, Zoey, Zoee
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