Vanya
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Vanya may refer to:
- Uncle Vanya, a tragicomedy by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
- Ваня (Vanya), a unisex diminutive of the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic given name Ivan. It is the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic form of John, itself derived from a Hebrew name, meaning "God is gracious" or "Gracious gift of God". An alternative spelling of the name is Vanja. In the Scandinavian countries and in Bulgaria it is a female given name, in Bosnia and Herzegovina mainly a male given name, and in Serbia and Croatia it is a unisex name.
- An Elf of the Vanyar in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
- The codename for the Tsar Bomba, a powerful nuclear weapon
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