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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 ...
See also. Eastern Slavic naming customs; Romanization of Russian; List of surnames in Ukraine; References. Unbegaun, B. O. (1972). Russian Surnames. Oxford University Press. (in Russian) Словарь русских фамилий (in Russian) Ономастикон Веселовского; Yumaguzin V.V., Vinnik M.V. (2019) Surnames in ...
Alexey, Alexei, Aleksey or Aleksei ( Russian: Алексей [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej]; Bulgarian: Алексей [ɐlɛkˈsɛj] ), [check Bulgarian stress] is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek Aléxios ( Αλέξιος ), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius. Alexey may also be romanized as ...
Given names form a distinct area of the Russian language with some unique features. The evolution of Russian given names dates back to the pre-Christian era, though the list of common names changed drastically after the adoption of Christianity. In medieval Russia two types of names were in use: canonical names given at baptism (calendar or ...
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.
The Russian Wikipedia ( Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized : Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of. May 2024, it has 1,981,629 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. [1] In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of ...
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 ...
Vladimir ( Russian: Влади́мир, pre-1918 orthography: Владиміръ) [1] is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria ( r. 889–893 ).