Avlida (given name)

Avlida (Russian: Авли́да) is a Russian female first name.^[1] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,^[2] which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia.^[3] This particular name was after Avlida, a town in Boeotia, where according to a legend, the Greek army set sail for the Trojan War and which served as the setting for the Euripides play Iphigenia in Aulis.^[1]

References

Notes

1. Superanskaya, p. 277
2. Superanskaya, pp. 22 and 277
3. Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Елена Душечкина. "Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов" (Russian)

Sources

• А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5