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After incorporation of Azerbaijan into the Soviet Union, it became obligatory to register their surnames and to add a Russian suffix such as -yev or -ov for men and -yeva or -ova for women. [7] Since the majority did not have official surnames, the problem was resolved by adopting the name of the father and adding the mentioned suffixes.
Mikhail "Mike" Oskarovich Varshavski [3] (Russian: Михаил Оскарович Варшавский; born November 12, 1989), known online as Doctor Mike, is a Russian-born American YouTuber, internet personality, certified family physician, [4] philanthropist, and professional boxer.
Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.
Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,340 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A Tatar personal name, being strongly influenced by Russian tradition, consists of two main elements: isem and familia (family name) and also patronymic. Given names were traditional for Volga Bulgars for centuries, while family names appeared in the end of the 19th century, when they replaced patronymics.
The name "Vasya Pupkin" (Russian: Вася Пупкин) may be used to denote an average random or unknown person in the colloquial speech. [60] [61] For a group of average persons or to stress the randomness of a selection, a triple common Russian surnames are used together in the same context: "Ivanov, Petrov, or Sidorov".
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On 29 November 2014, Bumaga created the A4 YouTube channel, [2] playing on his surname Bumaga (Бумага), meaning Paper. [8] Fame came in 2016 after the release of the video '24 часа в батутном центре' (24 hours in a trampoline center), [6] when the number of subscribers he had increased from 200 thousand to 1 million.