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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 ...
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.
Petrov or Petroff ( Russian: Петров; pronounced [p] or [pʲɪˈtrof]; masculine) or Petrova ( Russian: Петрова; pronounced [pʲɪˈtrovə]; feminine), is one of the most common surnames in Russia and Bulgaria. The surname is derived from the first name Pyotr (Пётр, Russian) or Petar (Петър, Bulgarian) (Slavic forms of the ...
Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,287 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Most Russian family names originated from patronymics, that is, father's name usually formed by adding the adjective suffix -ov(a) or -ev(a). Contemporary patronymics, however, have a substantive suffix -ich for masculine and the adjective suffix -na for feminine. For example, the proverbial triad of most common Russian surnames follows:
Abramov (male) and Abramova (female) (the form Abramoff is also used among emigrants) are old Russian surnames originating around the 16th century. [1] Variations of the former calendar name Avraam. The surname was common among all social estates and covered the whole territory of the Russian Empire. Sometimes it derived from patronymic.
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Volkov (b. 1954), Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Volkov (crater), a lunar crater bearing his name. 1790 Volkov, an asteroid bearing his name. Yefim Volkov (1844–1920), Russian landscape painter.
Russian Mennonite surnames (79 P) R. Russian-language surnames (1 C, 2,284 P) S. Surnames of Caucasian origin (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Surnames of ...