Alyosha

Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive (hypocorism) of the name Alexey. It may refer to:

People

• Alyosha (singer) (born 1986), Ukrainian pop singer
• Alyosha Abrahamyan (1945–2018), Armenian football player
• Alyosha Andonov (born 1961), Bulgarian football coach
• 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

See also

• Ivan & Alyosha, an American indie rock band
• Aliocha Schneider (born 1993), Canadian actor