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'''Zinoviev''', '''Zinovyev''', '''Zinovieff''' ({{langx|ru|Зино́вьев}}), or '''Zinovieva''' (feminine; Зино́вьева), as a Russian surname, derives from the personal name Zinovi, from Greek ''[[Zenobios (disambiguation)|Zenobios]]''.<ref>
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Notable people with the surname include:

* [[Alexander Dmitrievich Zinoviev]] (1854–1931), Russian politician (Governor of St Petersburg) under Nicholas II
* [[Alexander Zinoviev]] (1922–2006), Russian logician, sociologist, writer, and satirist
* [[Grigory Zinoviev]] (1883–1936), Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician
* [[Ivan Zinoviev]] (1905–1942), NKVD captain and [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
* [[Peter Zinovieff]] (1933–2021), British inventor
* [[Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal]] (1866–1907), a Russian writer
* [[Sauli Zinovjev]] (b.&nbsp;1988), Finnish composer
* [[Sergei Zinovjev]] (born 1980), Russian ice hockey player
* [[Sofka Zinovieff]] (b.&nbsp;1961), a British journalist and author
* [[List of Resident Evil characters|Nikolai Zinoviev]], fictional character from the video game ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]''

== See also ==
* [[Zinoviev letter]], a fraudulent letter that sparked a political scandal in Britain in 1924
* [[Russian destroyer Azard (1916)|Russian destroyer ''Azard'' (1916)]], later renamed ''Zinoviev''

== References ==
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[[Category:Russian-language surnames]]