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Natalya (Russian: Наталья) is the Russian form of the female given name Natalia.

The name Natasha (Russian: Наташа), being originally a diminutive form of Natalya, became an independent name outside the Russian-speaking states since the late 1800s.

People with the given name Natalya

• Natalya Akhrimenko (born 1955), Russian shot putter
• Natalya Donchenko (1932–2022), Soviet speed skater
• Natalya Estemirova (1958–2009), Russian human rights activist
• Natalya German (born 1963), Soviet sprint athlete
• Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936–2013), Russian poet, translator and civil rights activist
• Natalya Marchenkova (born 1948), Ukrainian animator and animation director.
• Natalya Kaptelinina (born 1984), Russian politician
• Natalya Kushch-Mazuryk, née Kushch (born 1983), Ukrainian pole vaulter
• Natalya Melik Melikyan (1906–1989), Armenian scientist
• Natalya Meshcheryakova (born 1972), Russian freestyle swimmer
• Natalya Neidhart (born 1982), Canadian professional wrestler
• Natalya Pasichnyk (born 1971), Swedish-Ukrainian classical pianist
• Natalya Snytina (born 1971), Russian biathlete
• Natalya Sutyagina (born 1980), Russian butterfly swimmer
• Natalya Sumska (born 1956), Ukrainian actress of theater and cinema, television hostess
• Natalya Synyshyn (born 1985), Ukrainian (until 2013) and Azerbaijani (since 2014) wrestler
• Natalya Yakovenko (born 1942), Ukrainian historian and academic
• Natalya Yermolovich (born 1964), Soviet javelin thrower
• Natalya Zabolotnaya (born 1985), Russian weightlifter

Fictional characters

• Natalya Rostova, Countess in War and Peace
• Natalya Simonova, Bond girl in GoldenEye
• Natalya, assassin in novel series H.I.V.E. (The Higher Institute of Villainous Education)
• Natalya, doll in the Groovy Girls line
• Natalya, a mage-type character in Arena of Valor

See also

• Nataliya, female given name