Gaidar

Gaidar is a name in Russian, Azerbaijani and Arabic.

*Russian surname (Russian Гайда́р), a pseudonym of Arkady Gaidar which was taken as a last name by his descendants:
**Arkady Gaidar (real name Arkady Golikov, 1904–1941), Soviet writer of children's stories.
*** His son (Timur Gaidar) published two versions of the pseudonym's origin [http://www.lib.ru/GOLIKOW/golikov.txt] :
***#This an abbreviation of french "Golikov Arkady d ' Arsamas", which means "Golikov, Arkady from Arzamas".
***# Arkady took the name Gaidar from a Khakas language word meaning "going first", "the leader".
**Timur Gaidar (1926–1999), Soviet admiral, Arkady's son
**Yegor Gaidar (1956–), former acting Prime Minister of Russia, Arkady's grandson
**Maria Gaidar (1982–), activist of the political youth movement "DA!", daughter of Yegor Gaidar

See also

*Azerbaijani given name (Azerbaijani "Heydər", Гейдар), now more commonly transliterated as Heydar:
*Arabic name (Arabic حيدر ), another form of (حيدرة), meaning "Lion" in Arabic: see Haydar.
* Gaidar is also the name of a commune (village) in Găgăuzia, Moldova
* Gaydar (disambiguation)