Avdonin

Avdonin (Russian: Авдонин; masculine) or Adonina (Russian: Авдонина; feminine) is a Russian last name.^[1] Variants of this last name include Avdokhin/Avdokhina (Авдохин/Авдохина), Avdoshin/Avdoshina (Авдошин/Авдошина), Avdyunin/Avdyunina (Авдюнин/Авдюнина), and Avdyushin/Avdyushina (Авдюшин/Авдюшина).^[1]

They all derive from the Russian given names Avdey (or its rare form Avdon) (male)—meaning servant, servile—and Yevdokiya (or its form Avdotya) (female)—meaning benevolence, acceptance, goodwill.^[1]

People with the last name

• Alexander Avdonin (b. 1932), the first known person to start exhuming the grave of the murdered royal Romanov family
• Juri Avdonin, Estonian association football player for Tartu JK Welco Elekter
• Tatiana Avdonina, Belarusian water skier, 2000 trick cable ski champion
• Yelena Avdonina, librarian, casualty of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis

Fictional characters

• Avdonina, a character from the 1991 movie Khishchniki; played by Svetlana Nemolyaeva