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Daniil Orain (born July 2000) is a Russian journalist known for his YouTube channel "1420 by Daniil Orain" in which he interviewed Russians in the street who agreed to comment on various political topics, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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.
Sometimes other substitutes for "nigger" were used. "Nigger Head Mountain", at Burnet, Texas, was named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair. In 1966, the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and the U.S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming "Colored Mountain" in ...
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 nations.
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 .
Raskolnikov (masculine) or Raskolnikova (feminine) is a Russian surname derived from the religious term raskolnik. Alternative spellings include Raskolnikow and Raskolnikoff. Fyodor Raskolnikov, pseudonym of Fyodor Ilyin, Russian sailor, Bolshevik and diplomat; Jonas Raskolnikov Christiansen, founder of the Norwegian black metal band Slavia
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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.