Yermolay (Russian: Ермолай) is a Russian given name. It is also written as Ermolai, Ermolay, and Yermolai.
Yermolay is derived from the Greek Hermolaos, meaning "the people of Hermes".
It is the basis of the surnames Yermolayev and Yermoshin.
People with the given name Yermolay include:
Ermolai-Erazm, 16th-century Russian churchman
Yermolay Yermolayevich Hamper (Gamper), 1750–1814, Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
Yermolay Dementievich Kamezhenkov, 1760–1818, Russian artist
Yermolay Fyodorovich Kern, 1773–1841, Russian general of the Napoleonic Wars
Yermolai Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn, born 1970, son of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translator/annotator of his works
Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin, a character in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
"Yermolay and the Miller's Wife", a story from Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches
Yermolay, a character in the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade.
