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Version 1. What does the name Belyaev mean.

The secular name Belyay in ancient times was very common. It could indicate a light complexion, hair, or have the meaning 'whitewashed,' that is, free from taxes. Among the related 'white' surnames are: Belov, Belyshev, Belyakov, Belyankin, Belyanchikov. However, it should be remembered that a white man was also called a tidy person, even a black-haired one, and a white moth is both a moth and a lupus mushroom. In addition, Belyakov is, perhaps, the same as Zaitsev - nicknamed the 'winter' hare-hare. The Belyaevs are a noble family, descending from Roman Afanasyevich Belyaev, a verst estate in 1633. Belyaev Alexander Romanovich (1884-1942) - a wonderful science fiction writer, author of the novels Amphibian Man, The Head of Professor Dowell, Star of the CEC and others.

Version 2. The history of the origin of the surname Belyaev.

When the village of Belyaev burned down, and the people left, they took the name of Belyaev, it appeared.

Version 3.

Initially, the patronymic from the Russian non-church male name Belyay. In the past, it was frequent. In the words Tupikov cited from documents 1422-1680 years. 33 examples of this name, which is a negligible part that has come down to us; the name Belyay could indicate a light complexion, hair, or have another meaning - 'bleached,' that is, free from taxes.

Version 4.

All these surnames undoubtedly come from the nicknames of blond, white-faced people; a whitish man was also called a tidy man. Belyay is known as the ancient non-church; the name and in this capacity could break away from its common noun. 'Not everyone who was named Belyay was white, and Chernyai or Chernyshi were black,' notes linguist A. M. Selishchev. (F). The appearance in the second position is characteristic of surnames of Polish origin: Bialkowski - Bialkowski. (U). BUT Bialko, Bialik - Ukrainian. Belyaev. Initially, the patronymic from the Russian non-church male name Belyay. In the past, it was frequent. In the words Tupikov cited from documents 1422-1680. 33 examples of this name, which is a negligible part that has come down to us; the name Belyay could indicate a light complexion, hair or have a different meaning - 'bleached', i.e. free of taxes. Belyakov (almost throughout the Arkhangelsk region). Possible etymological meanings of the foundations: bleached, that is, exempted from taxes; in Vologda dialects, white hare - 'shoes made of white rawhide', in the Kostroma region - 'a white-faced' or 'a white-haired'. (H)

Version 5.

The basis of the surname Belyaev was the secular name Belyay. The surname Belyaev goes back to the male non-church name Belyay, which was widely spread in Russia in the XV-XVII centuries. As a rule, it indicated the appearance of a person: 'white' in the meaning of 'light, very pale, white-faced, blond'. According to another version, the name Belyay can go back to the adjective 'white' in the meaning of 'dear, dear, good, clean, spotless' - many proverbs testify to this, for example: 'The shirt is black, but conscience is white.' According to another hypothesis, Belyay could be a nickname assigned to a 'bleached,' that is, a peasant free from taxes. A peasant could become a free-grassing farmer for merits to the tsar and the Fatherland, or they could remove taxes from him in exchange for another duty - military or monetary. Finally, it is possible that the surname Belyaev could come from a village or the village of Belyaevo - there were quite a lot of villages with that name in Russia. The name Belyay and the surname Belyaev are mentioned in historical documents: Turin interpreter Belyay Ivanov, 1422; Mikhas Belyay, serf of Gorodensky churchyard, 1500 g; Belyay Ivanov, son of Korostelev, a centurion in the Smolensk district, 1609; Posad man Belyay Pechonkin from Smolensk, 1609; slave Grisha Belyaev, 1608; a peasant from the Polotsk Voivodeship Belyai Mikhailovich, 1646. Among the well-known representatives of the family are Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (1884-1942), a Soviet science fiction writer, one of the founders of Russian science fiction literature.