Slava (disambiguation)

Slava is the Serbian custom of celebrating a family patron saint.

Slava may also refer to:

Personal name

Shortened given name

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 best known under this short name are:

  • Slava (singer), stage name of Russian singer Anastasia Slanevskaya
  • Slava Polunin, Russian performance artist Vyacheslav Polunin
  • Slava Gerovitch, American historian of science of Russian origin Vyacheslav Gerovitch
  • Slava Mogutin, New York-based Russian artist and author Yaroslav Mogutin
  • Slava Stetsko, Ukrainian politician and a World War II veteran Yaroslava Stetsko
  • Slava Turyshev, Russian physicist Vyacheslav Turyshev working in the US at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Slava Zaitsev, Russian fashion designer, painter, graphic artist, and theatrical costume designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev

Full given name

Soviet and Russian ships

Places

Culture and sports

Other

  • Slava watches, a Russian brand produced by the Second Moscow Watch Factory
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See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Slava
  • Sława, a town in Poland
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