Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Anastasia is a feminine given name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek word anástasis (ἀνάστασις), meaning "resurrection". It is a popular name in Eastern Europe.
Aanya, Anya, Ania or Anja is a given name. The names are feminine in most East European countries and unisex in several African countries.
Suslov is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Suslova. Notable people with the surname include:
The Russia women's national handball team is the national team of the Russian Federation. It is governed by the Handball Federation of Russia and takes part in international handball competitions.
Yevgeni Vasilyevich Trefilov is a former handball head coach of the Russian women's national team. He has led the Russian team to win the IHF World Women's Handball Championship four times, in 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2009. He rejoined the national team on 16 September 2013. Under his supervision, Russia won the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Zvezda-2005 Perm is a Russian professional women's football club currently competing in the Russian Women's Football Championship.
The Liga Națională is a league of professional women's handball league teams in Romania. Run by the Romanian Handball Federation, the competition is also known as the Liga Florilor MOL and is contested by sixteen teams.
Zvezda Zvenigorod is a Russian women's handball club from Zvenigorod, near Moscow. They won the Champions League and the Champions Trophy in 2008, and the EHF Cup in 2006/07. Between 2006 and 2011 the club was coached by Russian national team trainer Evgeny Trefilov. In the summer of 2011 he was replaced by head coach Zdravko Zovko.
Dinamo Volgograd is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003.
Apollinaria Prokofyevna Suslova, commonly known as Polina Suslova, was a Russian short story writer, who is perhaps best known as a mistress of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wife of Vasily Rozanov and a sister of Russia's first female physician Nadezhda Suslova. She is considered to be the prototype of several female characters in Dostoyevsky's novels, such as Polina in The Gambler, Nastasya Filipovna in The Idiot, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova in Crime and Punishment, Lizaveta Nikolaevna in The Possessed, and both Katerina and Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov. Suslova has often been portrayed as a femme fatale. Fyodor Dostoyevsky called her one of the most remarkable women of his time.
Nadezhda Prokofyevna Suslova was Russia's first woman medical doctor and the sister of Polina Suslova. She worked as a gynecologist in Nizhny Novgorod, and was involved in many charity efforts.
Elena Suslova is a former Russian football defender, who played for Zvezda Perm in the Russian Championship. She has won 5 championships with Energiya Voronezh and Zvezda.
Russia competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
Anastasia Sergeyevna Lobach, née Anastasia Kamenshykova, is a Belarusian handballer who plays for Rostov-Don and the Belarus national team.
Anastasia Sinitsyna is a Russian female handballer, who plays for Kastamonu Bld. GSK and the Russian national team.
Anastasia Aleksandrovna Lagina is a Russian handball player for Handball Club Lada and the Russian national handball team.
Anastasiia Olegovna Riabtseva is a Russian female handball player for HC Astrakhanochka and the Russian national team.
The Russia women's national futsal team is the national futsal team of Russia. The team is controlled by the Russian Football Union and affiliats with UEFA. Because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) suspended all Russian teams from FIFA and UEFA competitions, whether national representative teams or club teams.
