Chizhevsky

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The Russian-language surname Chizhevsky (feminine: Chizhevskaya) derives from the word chizh meaning "siskin". Surnames of similar derivations include Chizh and Chizhov; the Polish-language equivalent is Czyżewski, The Ukrainian spelling is Chyzhevskyi.

Notable people with the surname include:

• Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi (born 1971), Ukrainian soccer player and coach
• Alexander Chizhevsky (1897–1964), Soviet biophysicist, Russian cosmism
• Dmytro Chyzhevsky (1894 – 1977),Ukrainian-born scholar of Slavic literature, history, culture and philosophy
• Elżbieta Justyna Chizhevsky (1938–2010), Polish and American actress
• Heorhii Chyzhevskyi (born 1924), Ukrainian centenarian masters swimmer and World War II veteran
• Ilya Chizhevsky (born 1978), Russian businessman
• Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls (born 1968), American professional female bodybuilding champion
• Vasily Georgevich Chizhevsky or Vasile Cijevschi (1880–1931), Russian rittmaster, Russo-Japanese war participant, Bessarabia politician, administrator and writer
• {{Interlanguage link|Vladimir Chizhevsky|ru|Чижевский, Владимир Антонович}} (1899–1972), Soviet aircraft engineer