Yermolay () is a Russian masculine given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.
Yermolay is derived from the Greek (), meaning "the people of Hermes".Behind the Name: Yermolai, Behind the Name: Hermolaos
Diminutives of the name include Yermolayka (Ермолайка); Yermola (Ермола); Yerma (Ерма); Yermokha (Ермоха); Yermosha (Ермоша).Словарь русских имён | ЕРМОЛАЙ It is the basis of patronymic surnames Yarmolenko, Yermolayev, Yermolenko, Yermolin, Yermolkin, Yermolov, Yermolyev, Yermoshin.
Notable people People with the given name Yermolay include: , 16th-century Russian churchman and writer Yermolay Gamper, 1750–1814, Russian major general of the Napoleonic Wars (1773–1841) Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
Fictional characters Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin, a character in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov "Yermolay and the Miller's Wife", a story from Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches Yermolay, a character in the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade.
See also
Hermolaus Ermolao Ermolaos References