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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 .
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 ...
Slavic name suffixes. 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 ...
Petrov (surname) 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 ...
Alexeyev, Alekseyev, Alexeiev, Alexeev or Alekseev ( Russian: Алексе́ев) is a common Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Alexey (Алексей) and literally means Alexey's. Often the same name appears in English in several different transliterations. Similarly, Alexeyeva, Alekseyeva, Alexeeva and Alekseeva are ...
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 ...
Kuzmin (masculine, Russian: Кузьмин) or Kuzmina (feminine, Russian: Кузьминa) is a Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Kuzma and literally means Kuzma's. Notable people with the surname include: Afanasijs Kuzmins (born 1947), Latvian shooter. Anastasiya Vladimirovna Kuzmina (born 1984), Russian-born Slovak ...
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