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Pages in category "Russian masculine given names" The following 178 pages are in this category, out of 178 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Russian given names are provided at birth or selected during a name change. Orthodox Christian names constitute a fair proportion of Russian given names, but there are many exceptions including pre-Christian Slavic names, Communist names, and names taken from ethnic minorities in Russia .
Even some rarely used names and/or adaptations were used and they survived in family names. Here's a list of most common modern (1800s) and older notable Russian given names. Since most of the current names are of foreign origin, names that have a common English spelling which sounds similar to the Russian are sometimes anglicized.
Some prominent Russian-American men with Russian boy names include writer Vladimir Nabokov, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin. 100 Russian Boy Names
Additionally, prominent men with Russian boy names include writer Vladimir Nabokov, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin. 200 Russian Baby Names.
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski had the victory title 'Tavricheski', as part of his surname, granted to him for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, -off was a common transliteration of -ov for Russian family names in foreign languages such as French and German (like for the ...
Vilen "Willi" Tokarev was "octobered" with the name Vilen after V.I. Lenin [1] [2]. Given names of Soviet origin appeared in the early history of the Soviet Union, [3] coinciding with the period of intensive word formation, both being part of the so-called "revolutionary transformation of the society" with the corresponding fashion of neologisms and acronyms, [4] which Richard Stites ...
Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov in the opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky. This is a list of opera singers from Russian Federation, Soviet Union and Russian Empire including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list includes those, who were born in the Russian Federation/Soviet Union/Russian Empire but later ...