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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.
Vuk ( Serbian Cyrillic: Вук) ( listen ⓘ) is a male Slavic given name, predominantly recorded among Serbs as well as Croatians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Slovenes. The name literally means "wolf". [1] Vuk Karadžić, 19th-century Serbian philologist and ethnographer, explained the traditional, apotropaic use of the name: a woman who had ...
Boris (given name) Boris, Borys or Barys ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian: Борис; Belarusian: Барыс) is a male name of Bulgar origin. [ 1] It is most commonly used in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and other countries in Eastern Europe.
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 ...
Pages in category "Russian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,292 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Common places used as surnames include Dibra, Laci, Shkodra, Prishtina, Delvina, Koroveshi and Permeti, as well as the famous Frasheri surname of the Frasheri family. Additionally common some names indicate regional origins: Gega/Gegaj (for one of Gheg origin ), Tosku/Toskaj (signifying Tosk origin) and Chami (for Cham origin ).
Randall (given name) Randall is derived from a medieval name composed of two elements: "shield" or "rim" + "wolf". Randall / ˈrændl / is a masculine given name in English, Irish and German. Its modern use as a given name originates from the transferred use of the English–language surname Randall, which in turn is derived from Randolph .
All mean "descendant of Peter". This is similar to the use of "-son" or "-sen" in Germanic languages. In East Slavic languages (Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian) the same system of name suffixes can be used to express several meanings. One of the most common is the patronymic.