Yermolay
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Yermolay (Russian: Ермолай) is a Russian masuline given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.
Yermolay is derived from the Greek Ermolaos (Greek: Ἑρμόλαος), meaning "the people of Hermes".
It is the basis of patronymic surnames Yarmolenko, Yermolayev, Yermolenko, Yermolin, Yermolkin, Yermolov, Yermolyev, Yermoshin.
Notable people
People with the given name Yermolay include:
- Ermolai-Erazm[ru], 16th-century Russian churchman and writer
- Yermolay Gamper, 1750–1814, Russian major general of the Napoleonic Wars
- Yermolay Kern[ru] (1773–1841) Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
Fictional characters
- Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin, a character in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
- "Yermolay and the Miller's Wife", a story from Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches
- Yermolay, a character in the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade.