Blonsky is an

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. Feminine forms: Blonska (Блонська, Ukrainian), Blonskaya (Блонская, Russian, Belarusian). The surnames Blonsky,

Oblonsky Oblonsky (masculine), Oblonskaya (feminine) is a Russian-language surname (see " Blonsky" for its etymology). Notable people with this surname include: * (1924-2010), Russian writer * Shane Oblonsky (born 1985), American kickboxer *Prince Stepan (S ...

Obolonsky Obolonsky (masculine), Obolonskaya (feminine) is a Russian-language surname, see " Blonsky" for its etymology. Notable people with this surname include: * (1856-1913), Ukrainian (Russian Empire) professor of legal medicine, dean of the medical de ...

may be derived from various placenames Блонь , Облонь , Оболонь.И. М Ганжина , ''Словарь современных русских фамилий'', 2001
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'', the terms блонье, oболонье, among other meanings, referred to a kind of wet

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by river (in Western parts of the

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), as well as the surrounds of a town, a

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; - all originating from the generic meaning of "surrounding".,"БЛОНА"
/ref> and it is suggested that the term gave rise to placenames. "Blonsky" may also be the Russified form of the Polish surname Błoński of similar origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Lyudmyla Blonska, Ukrainian athlete * Nikki Blonsky (born 1988), American actress and singer * Pavel Petrovich Blonsky (1884–1941), Soviet psychologist * Seraphima Blonskaya (1870-1947), Russian artist and art teacher. Fictional character: * Emil Blonsky (a.k.a. The Abomination), a fictional supervillain and enemy of The Incredible Hulk

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