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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 ...
Aminoff family. Anchabadze. Andronikashvili. Anichkovs. Anrep (noble family) Apakidze (noble family) Argutinsky-Dolgorukov. Artamonov (Russian nobility) Asikhmovanov.
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.
The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*Ruotsi), supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...
Russian did not in general employ a nobiliary particle before a surname (as von in German or de in French); however, the Russian name suffix -skij which means “of” and is equal to “von” and “de” was used in many noble surnames especially topographic surnames as nobiliary particle. Russian noblemen were accorded an official ...
S. Sasha (name) Simeon. Simon (given name) Slava (given name) Stanislav (given name) Stepan (given name) Svetoslav. Sviatoslav.
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 ...
The history of Russian given name is usually divided in three stages: pre-Christian, period of pagan names, created by means of Old-East Slavic language.; Christian, foreign Christian names began to replace old pagan names; small proportion of traditional names became canonical;