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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 ...
Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,292 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first elements of Ukrainian surnames are most commonly given names (patronymics and matronymics), place names (toponyms), and professions. Patronymic surnames. From the first name Ivan (John in English), over 100 different surnames can be formed. The most common variations of Ivan in Ukrainian are Ivas, Jan, Vakhno, and Vanko.
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. Russian. Yaponchik (the Japanese) Notorious thief in law who later established a criminal organization in the USA. Matvey Yozhikov.
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 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 ...
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