What is "zinovy"

Zinovy or Zinovii (Russian Зиновий) is a Russian male given name, and may refer to:

• Bogdan Zinovy Mikhailovich Khmelnitsky (1595–1657), hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland
• Zinovy Petrovovich Feldman (1893–1942), Russian Jewish composer
• Zinovy Levovich Feldman ( ru) (1919–1989), Soviet film director
• Zinovy Gerdt (1916–1996), Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor, recognized with the title People's Artist of the USSR
• Zinovy Moiseevich Vilensky (1899–1984), Russian sculptor who worked and lived in Moscow
• Zinovy Peshkov (1884–1966), Russian-born French general and diplomat
• Zinovy Reichstein, Russian-born American mathematician
• Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848–1909), admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy
• Zinovy Serdyuk (1903–1982), Moldavian politician
• Zinovy Shulman (1924–2007) Belarusian hydrodynamics engineer
• Zinovy Vysokovsky (1932–2009), Soviet and Russian theater and movie actor and variety performer
• Zinovy Zinik (born 1945), novelist and broadcaster