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Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union . They are used commonly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and to a lesser ...
Russian-Jewish surnames (22 P) Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,287 total.
Aminoff family. Anchabadze. Andronikashvili. Anichkovs. Anrep (noble family) Apakidze (noble family) Argutinsky-Dolgorukov. Artamonov (Russian nobility) Asikhmovanov.
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
English. "Blackacre" and "John Doe" or "Jane Doe" are often used as placeholder names in law. Other more common and colloquial versions of names exist, including "Joe Schmo", "Joe Blow", and "Joe Bloggs". "Tom, Dick and Harry" may be used to refer to a group of nobodies or unknown men.
The leader of the Solntsevskaya bratva. Semyon Mogilevich. Ashkenazi Jewish ( Ukrainian Jewish ) Uncle Seva, the Brainy Don. Ukrainian mobster who is regarded as one of the most powerful gangsters from the former Soviet Union. Vladimir Kumarin. Russian. Boss of the Tambov gang. Vyacheslav Ivankov.
Originally, the name Rus ' ( Cyrillic: Русь) referred to the people, [ 1] regions, and medieval principalities (9th to 12th centuries) within the territory of the Kievan Rus'. Today its territory is distributed among Belarus, Ukraine, Eastern Poland, and the European section of Russia. The term Россия ( Rossiya ), comes from the ...
Slavic name suffixes. A Slavic name suffix is a common way of forming patronymics, family names, and pet names in the Slavic languages. Many, if not most, Slavic last names are formed by adding possessive and other suffixes to given names and other words. Most Slavic surnames have suffixes which are found in varying degrees over the different ...