Avdonin

Avdonin (Авдонин; masculine) or Adonina (Авдонина; feminine) is a Russian last name. Variants of this last name include Avdokhin/Avdokhina (Авдохин/Авдохина), Avdoshin/Avdoshina (Авдошин/Авдошина), Avdyunin/Avdyunina (Авдюнин/Авдюнина), and Avdyushin/Avdyushina (Авдюшин/Авдюшина).

They all derive from the Russian given names Avdey (or its rare form Avdon) (male)—meaning servant, servile—and Yevdokiya (or its form Avdotya) (female)—meaning benevolence, acceptance, goodwill.


 * People with the last name
 * Alexander Avdonin (b. 1932), the first known person to start exhuming the grave of the murdered royal Romanov family
 * Juri Avdonin, Estonian association football player for Tartu JK Welco Elekter
 * Tatiana Avdonina, Belarusian water skier, 2000 trick cable ski champion
 * Yelena Avdonina, librarian, casualty of the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis


 * Fictional characters
 * Avdonina, a character from the 1991 movie Khishchniki; played by Svetlana Nemolyaeva