Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist
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He has a wife — actress Yevgeniya Simonova, a daughter — Mariya Eshpai and stepdaughter — actress Zoya Kaidanovskaya (daughter of Yevgeniya Simonova and her first husband — actor Aleksandr Kaidanovsky).
He appeared in numerous films between 1939—1987, including Going Inside a Storm and Zoya.
In the 2002 book Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom the narrator tells of her decision to use the name "Zoya" as one of her pseudonyms when she joined The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in her fight against fundamentalism.
After ten months, Zoya and her older sister, Nant Bwa Bwa Phan, were able to get to Mae Sot in Thailand for three months, hoping for a chance to go to a university in Australia; however, this fell through, and they decided to complete their education at another refugee camp, Mae La.
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Zoya got her unusual name from her father, who named her after the Russian World War II hero Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya because he saw several parallels between the Soviet fight against the Nazis and the Karen struggle against the Burmese government.