Alliluyev

Alliluyev (masculine, Russian: Аллилу́ев) or Alliluyeva (feminine, Russian: Аллилу́ева) is a Russian surname. Lauterbach associates the name (which he transcribes as Alliluiev) with the exclamation "Hallelujah" (Russian: аллилуйя - alliluyya, Latin: Alleluia).^[1]

Notable people

Joseph Alliluyev (1945–2008), Russian cardiologist.
Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901–1932), wife of Joseph Stalin.
Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin and Soviet defector.

References

^ Lauterbach, Richard Edward (1945). These are the Russians. New York: Harper and Brothers. p. 109. Retrieved 3 November 2025. In 1919, at the home of his locksmith friend, Sergei Alliluiev (which means Hallelujah), Stalin met Sergei's lovely seventeen-year-old daughter, Nadya. They fell in love and were happily married [...].

[1] Lauterbach, Richard Edward (1945). These are the Russians. New York: Harper and Brothers. p. 109. Retrieved 3 November 2025. In 1919, at the home of his locksmith friend, Sergei Alliluiev (which means Hallelujah), Stalin met Sergei's lovely seventeen-year-old daughter, Nadya. They fell in love and were happily married [...].

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