Zoya
Soy (Russian Зоя, other transcriptions Zoya, Zoia ) is a Russian, female first name. It is the Russian version of the Greek first name Zoe ( Greek ζωή, life ).
Name winners
- Zoya Douchine ( b. 1983 ), former German figure skater
- Soy Ivanova ( born 1952 ), former Kazakh long-distance runner who competed for the Soviet Union
- Zoia Korvin - Krukovsky (1903-1999), Russian- Swedish artist
- Soy Anatoljewna Kosmodemyanskaya (1923-1941), Soviet partisan
- Zoya Phan ( born 1980 ), a human rights activist from the Karen people in Myanmar
- Soy Rudnowa Nikolaevna (1946-2014), former Russian table tennis player who competed for the Soviet Union
Other Uses
- (1793) Zoya, an asteroid
- Female first name