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Zhdanov may refer to:
Zhdanov ( Ukrainian and ) or Zhdanova (feminine; Жданова) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People- Andrei Zhdanov (1896–1948), Stalinist politician, developer of the Zhdanov Doctrine that governed Soviet cultural activities for a number of years
- Alexander Zhdanov (1858–?), Russian astronomer
- Igor Zhdanov (1920-1996), Latvian chess master
- Ihor Zhdanov (1967-), Ukrainian businessman. 3rd Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine.
- Ivan Zhdanov (1846–1901), Russian literary critic and student of folklore
- Leonid Zhdanov (1890–?), Russian selectionist
- Lev Zhdanov (1864–?), Russian novelist and playwright
- Victor M. Zhdanov (1914–1987), Russian virologist, instrumental in the push for global smallpox eradication
- Vladimir Zhdanov (1902–1964), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Yevgeny Zhdanov (1839–1892), Russian land surveyor and cartographer
- Yuri Zhdanov (1919–2006), Russian chemist, rector of Rostov State University from 1957 to 1988; son of Andrei Zhdanov and former husband of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Usage examples of "zhdanov".
They immediately turned it over to Zhdanov, the retired world champion and electronics engineer.
TALL BLOND MAN with cold eyes entered the bar and sat close to the two KGB agents who were watching Zhdanov talking to Politician at the bar.
So he said nothing, which Zhdanov seemed not to mind, for he continued talking without allowing a break for Politician to contribute comment.
A series of subtle shifting of the opening patterns followed, until Zhdanov found himself transposed into play against the Caro-Kann defense, a favorite of his later years as champion.
By the time Gadgets and the extra soldiers arrived, Zhdanov considered himself far enough ahead to allow the computer to resign.
Kremlin, and evidence suggests, as it was rumoured at the time, that Andrei Zhdanov, the Party boss in Leningrad, wrote it on the personal instructions of Stalin, who, just a few days before the article appeared, had seen the opera and clearly hated it.
Leningrad authorities took fright and, on the orders of Party Secretary Andrei Zhdanov, had the book withdrawn from circulation.
One month earlier, Zhdanov had commissioned Eisenstein to make his film.
Akhmatova and Zoshchenko was soon followed by a series of decrees in which a rigid Party line was laid down by Zhdanov for all the other arts.
Leningrad Party chief Zhdanov is trying to get a couple of tablespoons of sour cream for the children.
At the other end of the evolutionary scale was Vadim Zhdanov, their leader in the SVR.
When he realized he alone was left standing among his SVR agents and that a man who fit the description given by the director of the Institute was wading through the bodies of his team toward him, Vadim Zhdanov did the only thing he could do under the circumstances.
Nastasya Filippovna, by two containers of something called Zhdanov fluid, used in Russia as a disinfectant and deodorant.
All the time when I was in their house, I kept on thinking that somewhere under the floorboards a corpse had been hidden, perhaps by his father, and covered with oilcloth, like the Moscow one, and surrounded with bowls of Zhdanov water.
This decree, with its exegesis by Zhdanov, who was put in charge of carrying out reforms, and the much-publicized purges in both the arts and the sciences, all express a common reaction against Western trends within Soviet culture and a renewed emphasis on the didactic role of art, with its special obligation of inculcating the ideals of Soviet patriotism.