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Olesya , may also be spelt Olessia, is a feminine given name. It may refer to:
- Olesya Aliyeva (b. 1977), Russian alpine skier
- Olesya Babushkina (b. 1989), Belarusian gymnast
- Olesya Bakunova (b. 1980), Belarusian sprint canoer
- Olesya Barel (b. 1960), Russian basketball player
- Olesya Belugina (b. 1984), Russian gymnast
- Olesya Chumakova (b. 1981), Russian middle distance runner
- Olesya Dudnik (b. 1974), Ukrainian gymnast and coach
- Olesya Forsheva (b. 1979), Russian athlete
- Olesya Kurochkina (b. 1983), Russian football player
- Olesya Mashina (b. 1987), Russian footballer
- Olesya Povh (b. 1987), Ukrainian sprinter
- Olesya Rostovskaya (b. 1975), Russian composer and organist
- Olesya Rulin (b. 1986), Russian-American actress
- Olesya Stefanko (b. 1988), Ukrainian beauty pageant winner
- Olesya Syreva (b. 1983), Russian athlete
- Olesya Velichko (b. 1981), Russian modern pentathlete
- Olesya Vladykina (b. 1988), Russian Paralympic swimmer
- Olesya Truntaeva (b. 1980), Russian footballer
- Olesya Zabara (b. 1982), Russian triple jumper
- Olesya Zamula (b. 1984), Azerbaijani wrestler
- Olesya Zykina (b. 1980), Russian athlete
Olesya Popova.
Olesya is a novelette by Alexander Kuprin written in late 1897 – early 1898 and serialized in Kievlyanin newspaper in October 30 – November 17, 1898. Olesya, the most acclaimed piece of his Polesye cycle, did much to build Kuprin's literary reputation and warranted his move to Saint Petersburg.
According to scholar Nicholas Liker, "Olesya is the most charming of Kuprin's rural tales. Though meant at first to be only part of the Volhynia and Polesye cycle, this poetic story of the love between an urban intellectual and a beautiful country girl expanded into a full novelette of a significance far surpassing that of the other regional tales." The story was one of Kuprin's favorites. Referring once to both Olesya and his later work "The River of Life," he said: "There is life in it and freshness and... more of my soul than in my other tales."