Indeed:

https://www.amazon.com/Engraving-Sportsman-Spartan-Foot-Race...

http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Ancient/en/Athletes.htm...

"Lada" has nothing with Greek.

It is a transliteration of Russian "Лада" - short form of "Ладная" - beautiful/harmonious.

Yes, this is why the razor blades are called Ладас in Russian and used to have a picture of a running man in style of antique Greek drawings.

They're talking about Ladas, i.e., razor blades, not Lada, i.e., the car manufacturer. Two different things, not in any way related.

Lada (Лада) is also a Slavic goddes of beauty, spring, fertility and family - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_(mythology)

I'm grinning. That does make much more sense.

No, it doesn't. It is not ladas, it's lada and it's from a type of ship - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C%D1%8F... You can see logo of lada and there is a ship there

This is logo of the car - https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Файл:Lada_Logo.jpeg, this is a monument for the ship type in the city near by to the factory - https://goo.gl/images/Dod837, this is a picture of the ship type from an artist - https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Nic... and last but not least, the wikipedia article about ship type in russian - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ладья_(судно). Greece, yeah.

Ok, in case you do not understand Russian: the picture I posted is the Soviet packaging of these razor blades, they are ones on top with the picture of a running man in style of ancient Greek paintings and inscription of "Ladas" (Ладас) in Russian. Fun fact - adding "s" at the end of the word makes no sense in Russian so it's not a form of "Lada" (Лада) but an entirely different word. Judging by the fact that Ladas is the name of an ancient Greek athlete, which is also spelled as Ладас in Russian and the picture of some Greek athlete on the packaging it's not a huge of leap to conclude that the blades are named, in fact, after the aforementioned athlete and not ships, cars or goddesses with different name.

I think when OP was mentioning ladas they were talking about razor blades, not cars.

>This is logo of the car

It's not about the car. It's about a totally different product -- razor blades.

They're talking about Ladas, i.e., razor blades, not Lada, i.e., the car manufacturer. Two different things, not in any way related.

Yep, also this type of ship is kinda very related to the place where the car was made. It’s a city residing on a big, big river - Volga and Lad’ya - the type of ship is a symbol associated with that city and the river. My hometown, lovely place :)

VAZ, the manufacturer who produced Ladas was/is situated on the Volga river, and based on my understanding (I lived in a city nearby), the word Lada came from word Lad'ya which is a type of ship that sailed on Volga river. At least that's how I remember it.

Yeah. Sorry. I was wrong.