Arkady () is a Slavic masculine given name, ultimately derived from the

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

name Αρκάδιος, meaning “from Arcadia”. Endeared versions of the name are ''Arkasha''. The Latin equivalent is

Arcadius Arcadius ( ; 377 – 1 May 408) was Roman emperor from 383 to his death in 408. He was the eldest son of the ''Augustus'' Theodosius I () and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and the brother of Honorius (). Arcadius ruled the eastern half of ...

. Notable people with the name include: People: * Arkady Andreasyan (1947–2020), Armenian former football player and manager * Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos (1824–1908), Greek merchant * Arcady Aris (1901–1942), Chuvash writer * Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), Russian playwright and satirist * Arkady Babchenko (born 1977), Russian journalist * Arcady Boytler (1895–1965), Russian Mexican filmmaker * Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky (born 1950), mayor of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia from 1992 to 2010 * Arkady Chernyshev (1914–1992), Soviet ice hockey and soccer player * Arkady Fiedler (1894–1985), Polish writer, journalist and adventurer * Arkady Filippenko (1912–1983), Soviet Ukrainian composer * Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941), Soviet writer whose stories were very popular among Soviet children * Arkady Kots (1872–1943), Russian proletarian poet of Jewish descent *

Arkady Luxemburg Arkady Luxemburg (born 15 March 1939) is a Moldovan-United States, American composer.Steve Kokker, Kathryn Kemp, ''Romania and Moldova'' p. 34 He received a Master of Arts degree at the Academy of Music in Chișinău, Moldovan Soviet Socialist R ...

, Moldovan composer * Arkady Malov (1928–1995), Chuvash poet and translator * Arkady Migdal (1911–1991), Soviet physicist, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences * Arkady Mordvinov (1896–1964), Soviet architect and construction manager * Arkady Nebolsin (1865–1917), Russian admiral *

Arkady Plastov Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov (; – 12 May 1972) was a Russian Soviet painter. Biography Plastov was born into a family of icon painters in the village Prislonikha in the Russian Governorate of Simbirsk. He attended the sculpture department ...

(1893–1972), Russian social realist painter * Arkady Pogodin (1901–1975), Soviet singer * Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), Soviet stand up comedian of Jewish descent * Arcady Ruderman (1950–1992), Belarusian documentary filmmaker * Arkady Rylov (1870–1939), Russian and Soviet Symbolist painter *

Arkady Shevchenko Arkady Nikolayevich Shevchenko (October 11, 1930 – February 28, 1998) was a Soviet Union, Soviet diplomat who was the highest-ranking Soviet official Eastern Bloc emigration and defection, to defect to the Western world, West. Shevchen ...

(1930–1998), Ukrainian Soviet diplomat who defected to the West * Arkady Sobolev (1903–1964), Russian Soviet diplomat and ambassador to the United Nations * Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991), Soviet Russian science fiction author * Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (1939–2021), military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War * Arkady Ukupnik (born 1953), Russian composer, pop singer, actor and producer. * Arcadi Volodos (born 1972), Russian pianist *

Arkady Volsky Arkady Volsky (; 15 May 1932 – 9 September 2006) was a Soviet politician and businessman. He served as a senior aide to three Soviet General Secretaries, including Mikhail Gorbachev, and was one of three Deputy Prime Ministers in the last ...

(1932–2006), Russian politician * Arkady Vorobyov (1924–2012), Russian Soviet middle-heavyweight weightlifter * Arkady Vyatchanin (born 1984), Russian swimmer who competes in the backstroke events * Arcady Zhukov, Russian scientist Fictional characters: * Arkady Bogdanov, engineer and political figure in

Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer best known for his ''Mars'' trilogy. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has ...

's ''Mars'' trilogy *

Arkady Darell The ''Foundation'' series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. First published as a series of short stories and novellas from 1942 to 1950, and subsequently in three collections, for nearly thirty years the ...

, teenage heroine in

Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov ( ; – April 6, 1992) was an Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. H ...

's ''Foundation'' series *Arkady Dolgoruky, teenage hero in

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian literature, Russian and world literature, and many of his works are consider ...

's novel '' The Raw Youth'' *Arkady Ivanovich, in the TV series ''

The Americans ''The Americans'' is an American historical drama, period spy fiction, spy drama television series created by Joe Weisberg for FX (TV channel), FX. It aired for six seasons from 2013 to 2018. Weisberg and Joel Fields also served as showrunners ...

'' *Arkady Kirilenko, antagonist in the video game '' Battlefield: Bad Company 2'' *Arkady Kirsanov, in

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poe ...

's novel '' Fathers and Sons'' * Arkady Kolcheck, a recurring character in the American TV series '' NCIS: Los Angeles'' *Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, a Russian general who's secretly a henchman of the Janus crime syndicate in the 1995

James Bond The ''James Bond'' franchise focuses on James Bond (literary character), the titular character, a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels ...

film ''

GoldenEye ''GoldenEye'' is a 1995 spy film, the seventeenth in the List of James Bond films, ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional Secret Intelligence Service, MI6 agent James Bond (lit ...

'' * Arkady Renko, fictional detective, central character of seven novels by the American writer Martin Cruz Smith *

Omega Red Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. In 2009, Omega Red was ranked as IGN's 95th-greatest comic book villain of all time. ...

(Arkady Rossovich), in comic books published by Marvel Comics *Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, antagonist in Dostoyevsky's novel ''

Crime and Punishment ''Crime and Punishment'' is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal '' The Russian Messenger'' in twelve monthly installments during 1866.

'' *Arkady, feral dragon, side character in Naomi Novik's book series '' Temeraire''

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