Slava (given name)
Slava is a given name in Slavic countries.
Slava is a common nickname for masculine Slavic names ending with "-slav", e.g. Vyacheslav, Stanislav, Yaroslav, Sviatoslav, Rostislav, Mstislav or feminine Slavic names ending with "-slava", e.g. Miroslava, Yaroslava. Notable people whose given name has this etymology include:
- Slava (singer), stage name of Russian singer Anastasia Slanevskaya
- Slava Polunin, Russian performance artist Vyacheslav Polunin
- Slava Gerovitch, American historian of Russian science Vyacheslav Gerovitch
- Slava Mogutin, New York-based Russian artist and author Yaroslav Mogutin
- Slava Stetsko, Ukrainian politician and World War II veteran Yaroslava Stetsko
- Slava Turyshev, Russian physicist Vyacheslav Turyshev working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Slava Zaitsev, Russian artist Vyacheslav Zaitsev
Slava is also a full given name, masculine and feminine:
- Slava Amiragov, Russian rower
- Slava Grigoryan, Australian musician
- Slava Metreveli, Georgian football player and manager
- Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter
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