Volodarsky (surname)

Volodarsky (); transliteration variants: Volodarski, Wolodarsky, Wolodarski) is a Russian-language toponymic surname. It may be a Jewish surname derived from the place name Volodarka, or the Russian-language variant of the name a Polish place named Włodarka since the times when Poland was part of the Russian Empire. Accordingly, the corresponding Polish-language surname is .

Notable people with the surname include:

• Boris Volodarsky (born 1955), English historian, specialising in Intelligence History
• Eduard Volodarsky (1941–2012), Russian screenwriter, playwright and cinematographer
• Igal Volodarsky (1936–1977), Israeli basketball player
• Leonid Volodarsky (born 1950), Russian movie translator
• Peter Wolodarski (born 1978), Swedish journalist and television host
• V. Volodarsky (1891–1918), Russian revolutionary and early Soviet politician
• Wallace Wolodarsky, American screenwriter, television producer, film director, and actor

See also

• Manuel Woldarsky, Chilean political activist

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