Oleg

Oleg (Russian: Олег), Oleh (Ukrainian: Олег), or Aleh (Belarusian: Алег) is a Slavic given name. It derives from the Old Norse Helgi (Helge), meaning "holy", "sacred", or "blessed". The feminine equivalent is Olga. While seemingly Germanic, "Oleg" is not very common outside of Eastern European countries.
Russian pronunciation
Russian pronunciation of Oleg in English is based on the transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet, and hides three combined quirks of spoken (as opposed to written) Russian:
The stress is on the second syllable. In spoken Russian, the initial short unstressed 'O' is pronounced 'A' as in 'about', like 'Al-ég': however...
Written Russian 'e' is pronounced 'ye' as in 'yeti', like 'Al-yég': however...
A written final 'г' (hard g as in 'gun') is pronounced 'k', with the correct result 'Al-yék'.
Thus, rather than "Oh-leg", the proper pronunciation of Oleg in English most closely resembles the name Alec. But care should be taken since such pronunciation is valid only when referring to Russian males with the name "Oleg".
Ukrainian pronunciation
Ukrainian pronunciation of the name Олег is different from Russian, though the same Cyrillic letters are used in writing. Ukrainian Олег becomes Oleh in English according to the transliteration rules and the name is pronounced as |ɔːlˈeh| (with unstressed |ɔːl| and stressed |ˈe|, as in already and |h| like in help).

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Masc. proper name; see Olga.

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Russian form of Helge: holy, blessed, successful, prosperous.

Helge, Helga, Helgo, Olga, Helgi, Helle

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Oleg Deripaska	1968	Russian billionaire entrepreneur industrialist
2	Oleg Taktarov	1967	Russian mixed martial artist and actor
3	Oleg Cassini	1913	American fashion designer
4	Oleg Gordievsky	1938	Former colonel of the KGB
5	Oleg Tinkov	1967	Russian businessman and investor
6	Oleg of Novgorod	0900	Prince of Rus'
7	Oleg Penkovsky	1919	British spy in the USSR
8	Oleg Novitskiy	1971	Russian cosmonaut
9	Oleg Shatov	1990	Russian footballer
10	Oleg Kalugin	1934	Russian activist and KGB general
11	Oleg Skripochka	1969	Russian cosmonaut
12	Oleg Salenko	1969	Russian footballer
13	Oleh Vernyayev	1993	Ukrainian gymnast
14	Oleg Maskaev	1969	American boxer
15	Oleg Popov	1930	Soviet and Russian clown and circus artist
16	Charly Oleg	1931	French pianist
17	Oleg Gazmanov	1951	Russian singer
18	Oleg Boyko	1964	Russian businessman
19	Oleg Vidov	1943	Soviet/American actor
20	Oleg Menshikov	1960	Soviet and Russian actor, theatre director
21	Oleg Losev	1903	Russian, inventor, and physicist
22	Oleg Sentsov	1976	Ukrainian filmmaker
23	Oleg Yankovsky	1944	Soviet and Russian actor
24	Oleg Tabakov	1935	Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director
25	Oļegs Znaroks	1963	Latvian ice hockey player
26	Oleg Protopopov	1932	Figure skater
27	Oleg Kononenko	1964	Russian cosmonaut
28	Oleg Kuzmin	1981	Russian footballer
29	Oleg Ivanov	1986	Russian footballer
30	Oleg Tverdovsky	1976	Ice hockey player
31	Oleg Salyukov	1955
32	Oleg Kerensky	1905	Russian bridge engineer
33	Oleg Antonov	1906	Aircraft designer
34	Oleg Bryzhak	1960	Kazakh opera singer
35	Oleg Prokofiev	1928	Russian artist
36	Oleg Basilashvili	1934	Russian actor
37	Oleg Tsarev	1970	Businessperson and Ukrainian politician
38	Oleg Lobov	1937	Russian politician
39	Oleg Romantsev	1954	Russian footballer and manager
40	Oleg Shupliak	1967	Oleg Shupliak (born 23 September 1967 in Ternopil) Ukrainian artist living in Berezhany. Creates artistic works in the current optical illusion, best known for imaginative portrait heads named Hidden Images. Expresses itself in painting, photography, graphics, illustration and animation. In 1991 he graduated the Architecture Department of the Lviv Polytechnic National University. Since 2000 he has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Author of the official logo to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko.
41	Oleg Grabar	1929	American art historian
42	Oleg Kononov	1966	Footballer
43	Oleg Stefan	1959	American actor
44	Oleg Kagan	1946	Soviet musician
45	Oleg Kashin	1980	Russian dissident
46	Oleg Stepko	1994	Gymnast
47	Oleg Baklanov	1932	Politician, scientist, businessman
48	Oleg Caetani	1956	Italian conductor
49	Oleg Nikolaenko	1987	Russian national who is charged in U.S. federal court of operating the Mega-D botnet in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.
50	Oleg Kotov	1965	Russian cosmonaut
51	Oleg Perepetchenov	1975	Weightlifter
52	Oleg Saitov	1974	Boxer
53	Oleg Belaventsev	1949	Russian naval officer & politician
54	Oleg Gazenko	1918	Soviet generals and scientist
55	Oleg Zakirow	1952
56	Oleg Erovinkin	1955
57	Oleg Lavrentiev	1926	Soviet physicist
58	Oleg Veretennikov	1970	Russian footballer Russian footballer and manager
59	Oleg Platonov	1950	Russian writer
60	Oleg Strizhenov	1929	Soviet and Russian actor
61	Oleg Petrov	1971	Russian ice hockey player
62	Oleg Lyalin	1937	Soviet KGB agent and defecator of the United Kingdom
63	Oleg D. Jefimenko	1922	American physcisit
64	Oleg Borisov	1929	Soviet film and theatre actor
65	Oleg Kulik	1961	Russian artist
66	Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov	1933	Soviet cosmonaut
67	Oleg Kvasha	1978	Russian ice hockey player
68	Oleg Trubachyov	1930	Russian linguist
69	Oleg Vishnepolsky		Russian inventor
70	Oleg Saprykin	1981	Russian ice hockey player
71	Oleg Yevenko	1991	Belarusian ice hockey defenceman
72	Oleg Yefremov	1927	Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director
73	Oleg I of Chernigov	1052
74	Oleg Vasiliev	1959	Russian pair skater and coach
75	Oleg Atkov	1949	Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut
76	Oleg Fesov		Tajikistani musician
77	Oleg Chen	1988	Olympic weightlifter
78	Oleg Shenin	1937	Soviet politician
79	Oleg Artemyev	1970	Cosmonaut
80	Oleg Dahl	1941	Soviet actor
81	Oleg Nechiporenko
82	Oleg Novachuk	1971	Businessperson
83	Oleg Malyshkin	1951	Russian footballer
84	Oleg Romanishin	1952	Ukrainian chess player
85	Oleg Troyanovsky	1919	Soviet diplomat
86	Oleg Ovsyannikov	1970	Russian ice dancer
87	Oleg Maisenberg	1945	Russian musician
88	Oleg Yashin	1990	Russian ice hockey player
89	Oleg Serebrian	1969	Moldovan politician
90	Oleg Lundstrem	1916	Russian jazz musician
91	Oleg Khlevniuk	1959	Russian historian
92	Oleg Koshevoy	1926	Soviet partisan
93	Oleg Markov	1996	Australian rules footballer
94	Oleg Karavaïtchouk	1927	Soviet composer and pianist (1927-2016)
95	Oleg Mityaev	1956	Russian bard
96	Oleg Firer	1977	Businessman; Entrepreneur
97	Oleg Ljadov	1955
98	Oleg of the Drevlyans	0955	Ruler of the Drevlyans
99	Oleg Ostapenko	1957	Russian general and former Space Forces commander
100	Oleg Anofriyev	1930	Russian actor
101	Oleg Kozhemyako	1962	Russian politician
102	Oleg Mitvol	1966	Russian businessman
103	Oleg Pogudin	1968	Russian actor and singer
104	Oleg A. Korolev	1968	Russian artist
105	Oleg Ivanovsky	1922	Russian engineer
106	Oleg Viro	1948	Russian mathematician
107	Oleg Eremeev	1922	Russian artist
108	Oleg Lipchenko	1957	Canadian artist
109	Oleg Lanin	1996
110	Oleg Voronin	1962	Moldovoan businessman
111	Oleg Ivanovich Kalashnikov	1962
112	Oleg Danovski	1917	Romanian ballet dancer and choreographer
113	Oleg Vinnik	1973
114	Oleg Dolmatov	1948	Russian footballer
115	Oleg Lomakin	1924	Russian artist
116	Oleg Aleynik	1989	Russian footballer
117	Oleg Govorun	1969	Russian politician
118	Oleg Mavromatti	1965	Russian artist
119	Oleg Syromolotov	1953	Russian Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service
120	Oleg Orlov	1953	Russian biologist
121	Oleg Timofeyev	1963	American musician
122	Oleg Brega	1973	Moldovan journalist
123	Oleg Vassiliev	1931	Russian artist
124	Oleg Pavlov	1970	Russian writer
125	Oleg Vlasov	1984	Russian footballer
126	Oleg Sergeyev	1968	Russian footballer
127	Oleg Sõlg	1951
128	Oleg Litvinenko	1973	Footballer
129	Oleg Nejlik	1984	Swedish singer
130	Oleg Pashinin	1974	Uzbekistani footballer
131	Oleg Bakhtiyarov	1948	Psychologist
132	Oleg Ogorodov	1972	Uzbekistani tennis player
133	Oleg Zoteev	1989	Footballer
134	Oleg Yuryev	1959	Russian author
135	Oleg Khinsagov		Russian smuggler
136	Oleg Balan	1969
137	Oleg Grigoryev	1937	Boxer
138	Oleg Kubarev	1966	Footballer
139	Oleg Andronic	1989	Footballer
140	Oleg Tozoni	1927	Electrical engineer
141	Oleg Frish		Russian entertainer
142	Oleg Vasilenko	1973	Russian footballer
143	Oleg Marshev	1961	Russian pianist
144	Oleg Smirnoff
145	Oleg Shatskikh	1974	Footballer
146	Oleg Bozhev	1961	Speed skater
147	Oleg Karavayev	1936	Olympic wrestler
148	Oleg Krivonosov	1961	Latvian chess player
149	Oleg Zhivetin	1964	Painter
150	Oleg Sokolov	1956
151	Oleg Kuleshov	1974	Handball player
152	Oleg Tselkov	1934	Russian artist
153	Oleg Buryan	1959	Russian artist
154	Oleg Yaroslavich	1161	Russian prince
155	Oleg Ryaskov	1961	Russian filmmaker
156	Oleg Pantyukhov	1882	Russian scouting pioneer
157	Oleg Kuvaev	1967	Russian artist
158	Oleg Goncharenko	1931	Soviet Speed skater
159	Oleg Dimitrov	1996	Bulgarian footballer
160	Oleg Sakirkin	1966	Kazakh and Soviet triple jumper
161	Oleg Marichev	1945	Russian mathematician
162	Oleg Oshenkov	1911	Russian footballer Russian footballer and manager
163	Oleg Tataurov	1972	Figure skater
164	Oleg Belov	1973	Russian ice hockey player
165	Oleg Moldovan	1966	Sport shooter
166	Oleg Li	1991	Russian ice hockey player
167	Oleg Pungin	1968	Russian musician
168	Oleg Lupanov	1932	Russian mathematician
169	Oleg Bogayev	1970	Russian writer
170	Oleg Matveychev	1970	Russian politician
171	Oleg Platov	1983	Ukrainian boxer
172	Oleg Grebnev	1968	Handball player
173	Oleg Betin	1950	Russian politician
174	Oleg Polunin	1914	British botanist
175	Oleg Grigoriev	1943	Russian poet
176	Oleg Iachtchouk	1977	Footballer
177	Oleg Sîrghi	1987	Moldova weightlifter
178	Oleg Molenko	1954	Ukrainian priest
179	Oleg Chirkunov	1958	Russian politician
180	Oleg Velyky	1977	German handball player
181	Oleg Korneev	1969	Russian chess player
182	Oleg Protsenko	1963	Russian triple jumper
183	Oleg Babak	1967
184	Oleg Kiselyov	1967	Handball player
185	Oleg Stepanov	1939	Judoka
186	Oleg Ryzhenkov	1967	Belarusian biathlete
187	Oleg Volkov	1958	Russian pianist
188	Oleg Grams	1984	Hadball player
189	Oleg Samsonov	1987	Russian footballer
190	Oleg Dulub	1965	Soviet association football player
191	Oleg Bogomolov	1950	Russian politician (b. 1950)
192	Oleg Teryokhin	1970	Russian footballer
193	Oleg Timchenko		Painter
194	Oleg Shirinbekov	1963	Tadshik footballer
195	Oleg Strakhanovich	1979	Footballer
196	Oleg Antonenko	1971	Belarusian ice hockey player
197	Oleg Makara	1954
198	Oleg Zhakov	1905	Soviet actor
199	Oleg Kornienko	1973	Footballer
200	Oleg I of Ryazan