Anatoly ( , ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian masculine

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, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'' (), meaning "sunrise." Saint

Anatolius of Constantinople Anatolius of Constantinople (; died 3 July 458) was a Patriarch of Constantinople (November 449 – 3 July 458). He is regarded as a saint, by both the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Life Anatolius was born at Alexandria. He was ordained ...

was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of

Constantinople Constantinople (#Names of Constantinople, see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman Empire, Roman, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine, Latin Empire, Latin, and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empire ...

in 451. Anatoly was one of the five most popular names for baby boys born in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...

, Russia, in 2004. Approximately one in every 35,110 Americans is named Anatoly, with a popularity rate of 28.48 per million.Poke My Name.com
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Anatolia Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

– a vast plateau that occupies a large portion of Asia Minor in modern-day Turkey – shares the same linguistic origin.

People

Anatoly Anatoly ( , ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'' (), meaning "sunrise." Saint Anatolius of Constantinople was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of Constantinople ...

(born 1999), Ukrainian weightlifter * Anatoli Agrofenin (born 1980), Russian footballer *

Anatolii Brezvin Anatolii Ivanovych Brezvin () (born 8 January 1956) is a Ukrainian former businessman, politician, and ice hockey executive. He earned an industrial accounting degree from Kyiv National Economic University, Kyiv Institute of National Economy, a ...

(born 1956), Ukrainian businessman, politician, and ice hockey executive * Anatoly Ivanovich Akishin (born 1926), Soviet-Russian scientist * Anatoli Aslamov (born 1953), Russian football coach * Anatoli Balaluyev (born 1976), Russian footballer *

Anatoly Balchev Anatoly Balchev ( Ukrainian Анатолий Маркович Бальчев, born 28 July 1946) is a Russian composer, actor, screenwriter and director. Life and work Balchev initially worked as a composer, creating pieces for the cinema and thea ...

(born 1946), Russian composer and actor * Anatoli Bashashkin (1924–2002), Russian footballer *

Anatoli Blagonravov Anatoly Arkadevich Blagonravov (; – 4 February 1975) was a Soviet engineer in the Soviet space program and later a diplomat. He represented the Soviet Union on the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). He work ...

(1895–1975), Russian physicist * Anatoli Bogdanov (born 1981), Russian footballer *

Anatoli Boisa Anatoli Boisa ( ka, ანატოლი ბოისა born 9 September 1983) is a Georgian professional retired basketball player. Currently, he is the assistant coach of Sagesse Club in the Lebanese Basketball League The Lebanese Basketba ...

(born 1983), Georgian basketball player *

Anatoli Boukreev Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above —without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful as ...

(1958–1997), Russian climber *

Anatoli Bugorski Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski (; born 25 June 1942) is a Russian retired particle physicist. He is known for having survived a radiation accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his head. Acci ...

(born 1942), Russian scientist *

Anatoli Bulakov Anatoly Nikolayevich Bulakov () (February 3, 1930 – September 19, 1994) was a Boxing, boxer from the Soviet Union, USSR, who won the bronze medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He t ...

(1930–1994), Soviet boxer * Anatoly Bulgakov, Russian footballer *

Anatoly Chepiga Anatoly Vladimirovich Chepiga (, born 5 April 1979) is a Colonel (Eastern Europe), colonel in the Russian General Staff's Main Directorate (also known as GRU (Russian Federation), GRU), the military intelligence service of the Russia, Russian ...

(born 1979), Russian intelligence officer *

Anatoly Chubais Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian- Israeli politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s. During this period, ...

(born 1955), Russian politician *

Anatoli Davydov Anatoli Viktorovich Davydov (; born 13 November 1953) is a Russian professional Association football, football coach and a former player. He is the director of the academy for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, Zenit St. Petersburg. Career Davydov mad ...

(born 1953), Russian football coach *

Anatoly Demitkov Anatoly Nikolayevich Demitkov (27 May 1926 – 15 August 2005) was a Soviet canoeist. He took the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne together with Mikhail Kaaleste. They went on to win the E ...

(1926–2005), Soviet canoeist *

Anatoly Dobrynin Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician, statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Ambassador of Russia to the United States, Soviet ambassador to the United States for more ...

(1919–2010), Russian politician *

Anatoli Droga Anatoli Droga (born 26 January 1969) is a Ukrainian judoka. He is currently a trainer of the Dnipro Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of t ...

(born 1969), Ukrainian judoka *

Anatoly Dyatlov Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov (; 3 March 1931 – 13 December 1995) was a Soviet engineer who was the deputy chief engineer for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. He supervised the safety test which resulted in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, for wh ...

(1931–1995), Russian nuclear engineer *

Anatoli Fedotov Anatoli Vladimirovich Fedotov (; born May 11, 1966) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played four games in the National Hockey League. Career He began his career with his hometown team Kristall Saratov before moving to the ...

(born 1966), Soviet ice hockey player *

Anatoli Fedyukin Anatoli Viktorovich Fedyukin (; 26 January 1952 in Voronezh Great Olympic Encyclopedia, vol.1-2, Moscow:Olympia Press Publisher, 2006, entry on "Федюкин", availablonline/ref> – 29 July 2020) was a Soviet/ Russian handball player who ...

(1952–2020), Russian handball player *

Anatoly Filipchenko Major General Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (26 February 1928 – 7 August 2022) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. He was born in Davydovka, Voronezh Governorate, RSFSR. After lea ...

(1928–2022), Soviet cosmonaut *

Anatoli Firsov Anatoli Vasilievich Firsov (; 1 February 1941 – 24 July 2000) was a Russians, Russian ice hockey left wing and center, who competed internationally for the Soviet Union, USSR. In the IIHF World Championships, he won the scoring title four times ...

(1941–2000), Russian ice hockey player *

Anatoly Fomenko Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (; born 13 March 1945 in Stalino, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian professor of Mathematics at Moscow State University. He is well-known as a topologist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a painter and il ...

(born 1945), Russian mathematician * Anatoli Aleksandrovich Grishin (born 1986), Russian footballer *

Anatolii Horelik Hryhorii Horelik (), commonly known by his pseudonym Anatolii Horelik (; 1890–1956), was a Ukrainian Jewish anarchist activist that agitated in Donbas during the 1917 Revolution. Biography Hryhorii Horelik was born into a lower-middle-class f ...

(1890–1956), Ukrainian activist *

Anatoli Ivanishin Anatoli Alekseyevich Ivanishin (; born 15 January 1969) is a former Russian cosmonaut. His first visit to space was to the International Space Station on board the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft as an Expedition 29/ Expedition 30 crew member, launch ...

(born 1969), Russian cosmonaut * Anatoly Kaigorodov (1878-1945), Russian painter *

Anatoly Karatsuba Anatoly Alexeyevich Karatsuba (his first name often spelled Anatolii) (; Grozny, Soviet Union, 31 January 1937 – Moscow, Russia, 28 September 2008) was a Russian people, Russian mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory, p-ad ...

(1937–2008), Russian mathematician *

Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, ; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, former World Chess Championship, World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 ...

(born 1951), Russian chess grandmaster (World Champion) * Anatoly Kononenko (1935–2010), Soviet sprint canoer * Anatoly Khrupov, Soviet photographer * Anatoly Aleksandrovich Kuzovnikov (1922-2004), Soviet-Russian physicist *

Anatoly Lyadov Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (; ) was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor. Biography Lyadov was born in 1855 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, into a family of eminent Russian musicians. He was taught informally by his conductor s ...

(1855–1914), Russian composer * Anatoly Moskvin (born 1966), Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian *

Anatoli Nankov Anatoli Aleksandrov Nankov (; born 15 July 1969) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently in charge of Marek Dupnitsa. Career Nankov spent most of his career playing in the Bulg ...

(born 1969), Bulgarian footballer and a coach * Anatoly Onoprienko (1959–2013), prolific Ukrainian serial killer and mass murderer *

Anatoly Papanov Anatoli Dmitriyevich Papanov (; 31 October 1922 – 5 August 1987) was a Soviet and Russian actor, drama teacher, and theatre director at the Moscow Satire Theatre where he served for almost 40 years. A prominent character actor, Papanov is most ...

(1922–1987), Soviet actor * Anatoly Puzach (1941–2006), Soviet-Ukrainian former footballer and coach *

Anatoly Rasskazov Anatoly Ivanovich Rasskazov (; 16 January 1941 – 17 February 2010) was a staff photographer and illustrator at the Soviet Chernobyl power station. He was the first person to photograph the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Early life Rasskazo ...

(1960–2010), Russian photographer and artist * Anatoly Oleksandrovich Romanchuk (1944-2023), Soviet-Ukrainian politician *

Anatoly Samoilenko Anatoly Mykhailovych Samoilenko () (2 January 1938 – 4 December 2020) was a Ukrainian mathematician, an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since 1995), the Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Acad ...

(1938–2020), Russian mathematician * Anatoly Shariy (born 1978), Ukrainian investigative journalist * Anatoly Slivko (1938–1989), Soviet serial killer *

Anatoly Sobchak Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak ( rus, Анатолий Александрович Собчак, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ sɐpˈtɕak; 10 August 1937 – 19 February 2000) was a Russian politician and legal scholar, a co-autho ...

(1937–2000), Russian politician * Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934–1982), Russian actor *

Anatoly Stessel Anatoly Mikhaylovich Stessel (; ; –) was a Russian Empire, Russian baron of Germans, German descent, military leader, and general. Biography Anatoly Stessel, born in 1848 as the son of Lieutenant General Ivan Matveevich Stessel, graduated fr ...

(1848–1915), Russian military leader *

Anatoli Tarasov Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov (; 10 December 1918 – 23 June 1995) was a Russian ice hockey player and coach (sports), coach. Tarasov is considered "the father of Russian ice hockey" and established the Soviet Union national ice hockey team, So ...

(1918–1995), Russian ice hockey player and coach * Anatoly Vladimirovich Treskin (1905-1986), Soviet art restorer and artist * Anatoliy Tymoschuk (born 1979), Ukrainian footballer *

Anatoly Vaneyev Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vaneyev ( – ) was an active participant of the revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire. Biography Anatoly Vaneyev was born in the family of an official. He went to the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Techno ...

(1872–1899), Russian revolutionary * Anatoly Vishevsky (born 1954), American scholar of Russian literature * Anatoly Lavrentievich Vysotsky (1924-1996), Soviet-Ukrainian artist * Anatoly Zimon (1924–2015), Russian professor

Fictional

* Anatoli Knyazev (also known as KGBeast), a fictional character appearing in

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* Anatoli (Anatole) Kuragin, a character in Leo Tolstoy’s ''War and Peace'' * Anatoly Sergievsky, from the musical ''Chess'' * Anatoly Novoseltsev, a main character in the 1977 Russian film '

Office Romance ''Office Romance'' () is a 1977 Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film's plot is based on the stageplay ''Co-workers'' (') written by Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, and tells the story of Ludmila Kalugina, head of a statistical bur ...

' and the later 2011 remake ' Office Romance. Our Time' where he was played by

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukraini ...

, the now president of Ukraine.

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