title: Arkady
text: # Arkady
  
  Arkady (Russian: Арка́дий, romanized: Arkadiy) is a Slavic masculine given name, ultimately derived from the Greek name Αρκάδιος, meaning “from Arcadia”. The Latin equivalent is Arcadius. Notable people with the name include:
  
  People:
  
  * Arkady Andreasyan (1947–2020), Armenian former football player and manager
  * Arkadios Dimitrakopoulos (1824-1908), Greek merchant
  * Arcady Aris (1901–1942), Chuvash writer
  * Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925), Russian playwright and satirist
  * Arkady Babchenko (born 1977), Russian journalist
  * Arcady Boytler (1895–1965), Russian Mexican filmmaker
  * Arkady Mikhailovich Chernetsky (born 1950), mayor of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia as of 2007
  * Arkady Chernyshev (1914–1992), Soviet ice hockey and soccer player
  * Arkady Fiedler (1894–1985), Polish writer, journalist and adventurer
  * Arkady Filippenko (1912–1983), Soviet Ukrainian composer
  * Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941), Soviet writer whose stories were very popular among Soviet children
  * Arkady Kots (1872–1943), Russian proletarian poet of Jewish descent
  * Arkady Luxemburg, Moldovan composer
  * Arkady Malov (1928–1995), Chuvash poet and translator
  * Arkady Migdal (1911–1991), Soviet physicist, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
  * Arkady Mordvinov (1896–1964), Soviet architect and construction manager
  * Arkady Nebolsin (1865-1917), Russian admiral
  * Arkady Plastov (1893–1972), Russian social realist painter
  * Arkady Pogodin (1901–1975), Soviet singer
  * Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), Soviet stand up comedian of Jewish descent
  * Arcady Ruderman (1950–1992), Belarusian documentary filmmaker
  * Arkady Rylov (1870–1939), Russian and Soviet Symbolist painter
  * Arkady Shevchenko (1930–1998), Ukrainian Soviet diplomat who defected to the West
  * Arkady Sobolev (1903–1964), Russian Soviet diplomat and ambassador to the United Nations
  * Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991), Soviet Russian science fiction author
  * Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (1939–2021), military leader of the Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War
  * Arkady Ukupnik (born 1953), Russian composer, pop singer, actor and producer.
  * Arcadi Volodos (born 1972), Russian pianist
  * Arkady Volsky (1932–2006), Russian politician
  * Arkady Vorobyov (1924–2012), Russian Soviet middle-heavyweight weightlifter
  * Arkady Vyatchanin (born 1984), Russian swimmer who competes in the backstroke events
  * Arcady Zhukov, Russian scientist
  
  Fictional characters:
  
  * Arkady Bogdanov, engineer and political figure in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy
  * Arkady Darell, teenage heroine in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
  * Arkady Dolgoruky, teenage hero in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Raw Youth
  * Arkady Ivanovich, in the TV series The Americans
  * Arkady Kirilenko, antagonist in the video game Battlefield: Bad Company 2
  * Arkady Kirsanov, in Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons
  * Arkady Kolcheck, a recurring character in the American TV series NCIS: Los Angeles
  * Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, a Russian general who's secretly a henchman of the Janus crime syndicate in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye
  * Arkady Renko, fictional detective, central character of seven novels by the American writer Martin Cruz Smith
  * Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich), in comic books published by Marvel Comics
  * Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, antagonist in Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment
  * Arkady, feral dragon, side character in Naomi Novik's book series Temeraire
  