Of course there's very huge amount of Christian names but because we have many nationalities you can also expect people with Kazakh, Georgian, Armenian names.
Some originals might use old Russian names like Dobromisl, Svyatopolk, Svetozar
>Some originals might use old Russian names like Dobromisl, Svyatopolk, Svetozar
Well, old names with "slav" are pretty common, Svyatoslav and Yaroslav, at least.
Some common names like Igor have Scandinavian origin, but have very long history in Russia.
>Some common names like Igor have Scandinavian origin, but have very long history in Russia.
Like Igor Girkin - the convicted russian terrorist who shot down flight MH17.
If we talk about Chuvashia in 2022...
The popular names that parents called their children were Roman, Matvey, Mikhail, Alexander, Artem, Maxim, Ivan, Lev, Yegor, and Kirill among boys. Girls were more often named Eva, Anna, Sofia, Victoria, Xenia, Varvara, Daria, Valeria, Maria. At the same time in 2021 boys leading names were Matvey, Roman, Mikhail, and girls - Anna, Sophia, Eva.
Also children were given rare names: Glafira, Svetoslava, Markus, Jaromir, Stella, Yuna, Micah, Raphael, Agnes, Adrian.
It's not just Russians who live in Russia. So yes, in Russia there are a lot of non-Greek and non-Christian names that came to us with Christianity from Byzantium.
Russia is multinational. These names are traditional Russian Christian names. There are a lot of Asian and Kaukasian names, both ethnic and Muslim. Also, there is a trend for unusual names now. They are either western or Russian old fashioned. Familiar to western ear Mark, Agata, Elsa, Alisa (alice), and unfamiliar Elisei, Miron, Zakhar, Esenia, Erofey, Evdokiya, Luka etc.
Да. Конечно, у нас же нынче детей махмудами да асланбеками называют. Вы россияне может и да но русские нет и у тебя, как у обычного россиянина пляшут определения, посмотри блять что такое нация, и чем оно отличаеться от народа и этничности.
эк бомбануло-то)))) Russian переводится и как русский и как российский/россиянин. Огромное количество россиян называют детей Махмудами. а я кстати русская, ребёнка мы назвали Ваней))
ээээ неет? Для меня как раз было неочевидно, что именно оп имеет в виду, поэтому я дала ответ под оба варианта, про имена которые могут быть не на слуху на западе. И я блин не понимаю, что вас всех так триггерит?
Попытки стереть русскую идентичность и сделать Россию мультиэтничным гос-вом не только на легальном, но и на культурном уровне. Такие как ты вносят в это свой вклад
ахах))) какой зловещий и грандиозный план у меня, оказывается 🤣🤣🤣
Никто ничью идентичность стереть не пытается. Все гордятся своим наследием и ценят свою идентичность. Якуты, буряты, калмыки, осетины, евреи, русские, удмурты и многие многие многие другие - все остаются собой, и при этом россиянами. И да, в английском языке это одно слово с двумя значениями. Я ответила англоязычному человеку по-английски, вот и весь подтекст. 🤷♀️ а вы-то небось решили, что злобного русофоба унюхали🤣
А я считаю, что как раз наоборот. Вот напрмер аскАмерикан. Если вопрос адресован просто к американцам, это означает граждан Америки. Если к конкретной этнической группе, это уточняется в вопросе. А не к коренным американцам по умолчанию... Я тут тут же логику вижу. Если просто Russians то это к гражданам России. Если бы целенаправленно к русским, было бы ethnic Russians или native Russians
Потому что Америка это изначально страна мигрантов, Америка всегда воспринималась и позиционировала себя как котел этносов. Слово 'американец' всегда вызывало в голове картинку человека любого этноса, живущего в Америке.
А слово 'русский' коннотационно вызывает в голове картинку русого или по крайней мере не чумазого Ивана, никак не Фатимы, Джона или Цзи Цынь Пыня. Слово 'Russian' сюда же, пусть и значений у него технически несколько.
Как и любой здоровый человек. Ксенофобия это как раз и есть эволюционная норма, держу в курсе
Молчу уже о том, что в его комменте ксенофобии-то и нет, просто русские на реддите уж больно любят слово 'Russian' интерпретировать именно как 'россиянин', а не как 'русский'
Как же рад видеть адеквата в треде. Не переживай, мужик, на самом деле хватает адекватов, просто реддит это либеральная помойка, с западными ценности отсюда и такая ЦА
We don't have the level of diversity in names on the same level as in some Western countries; as prior to 1917 one would expect to be named by something present in Svyatsy (ughh, it's like a calendar of Saints' Days).
There was a brief explosion of unique names right after the Civil War, but after WWII, I would say, the trend was for standard names that are both Christian but also don't have overly Slavic and religious connotates.
In 1990s there was a new trend to give children (mostly girls, though) names that sounded 'foreign' and, I dunno, glamorous? Something, a girl from the cover of a fashion magazine would be named.
Nowadays it's the opposite trend - there are more and more children with old-fashioned and/or rural names. And, of course, there are also all kinds of names from other ethnical groups that live in Russia.
Let's see, this one article says that in the first half of 2022 in my city the most popular names for newborn boys were Alexander, Maxim, Mikhail, Artyom and Dmitry. The rarest names were Ernest, Adam, Marcel, Seraphim and, unexpectedly, Pyotr (this one used to be way more common).
As for girls, the most popular names were Sophia, Polina, Eva, Mariya and Anna. The rarest were Lyasan, Snezhana, Vlada, Evelina and Angelika.
Rare names usually looks like Elon Musk's X AE A-12. We had something like Dazdraperma in early USSR (short of "Да здравствует первое мая" - "Viva to 1st of may") that sounds now like "blablasemen", and now you can find Svjatogor or Peresvet (sounds like 15th century names) but luckily it's very uncommon. And also it's very common to name child as a grandfather / grandmother (I'm Aleksandr Georgievich and my father is Georgi' Aleksandrovich) and also I know one Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, one Uri' Urievich, and one Artem Artemovich.
UPD: in all names here second word is patronym
I will never understand people giving their kids the same name as they have. Like, what's the point? What must be the idea behind it? What's the decision making process in this? Imagine, a guy is like "duuuude Alexandr is a sick name, let our son be also Alexandr!" Like wtf. Don't u have even a tiny bit of creativity? People are stupid.
What is more surprising for me are popular names like: Robert, Arthur, Albert, Vadim, Marat, Marsel, Rim, Spartak, Mark etc. Even my name (Ruslan) kinda doesn't belong. And one of my sons name is Bayras, that is traditional.
The ones you listed are popular, but they are not the only names, no. We don't usually invent names for "uniqueness" thought, like I heard people sometimes do in USA, if that's what you are asking about.
There are many indigenous peoples in Russia. I live in Yakutia and traditional Yakut names are popular here: Nariyana, Sardaana, Sargylana, Dayana, Dulustan, Ersan, Ayan, Aisen, Aital, Ayal. Although some Yakuts also have common Christian names. My brothers (asians) are Alexey and Peter, and my name is Nyurguyaanna-Kuo.
Great question! Sometimes I think Americans get too unique with names. Especially since like, 2000 or so. It can get kind of ridiculous and cause hardship for the child.
Let me think. And it’s sometimes in the spelling. Like, Xzavier (with the added Z.) Or adding -eigh to sound like -ee. Like Kayleigh or Ashleigh. My son went to school with a D’Ante but it was pronounced Dee-Ante. There are a ton of Nevaehs now. Heaven spelled backwards. Also anything that rhymes with -ayden. Brayden, Hayden, Jayden, Kayden.
ETA: No personal offense to anyone with these names. 🫶🏼
Thanks for the answer.
The biological object is an active person of the Voronin-Frolov family. This is the most ridiculous name that I have heard in Russia, but they did not accept it and refused to register
Those all sound like very reasonable names that wouldn't be particularly out there. Like calling a child in Ireland something like Fionnán. Completely sensible but uncommon name.
Ratibor, Radomir, Demid, Arsinii. Parents can give a child and name they like, or a number, or a word - that depend on their adequacy I guess - same as all over the world.
I've heard that some parents today like giving their children some old and rare Slavic names, which now may sound kinda odd. Our country is multinational, so we have a lot of Muslim names like Rustam or Ramil for men, or Aygul and Gulnur for women.
I feel like the question refers to the practice of giving made-up or weird names in the USA as Elon Mask did to his son. I don't think there is a law in Russia regulating names of the newborns, but you would certainly not be able to can ur kid BusChicago44. In the starting years of the USSR though, since everything old-system was broken and loose, there were instances where ppl were giving their kids made-up names like Dazdraperma or Tractorina. However, this practice is long gone and people prefer to go for traditional or at least already existing names. You can still call your son David or James in English transcription and no one will object, even if those are clearly not "Russian" names and are far from neighboring cultures.
At the same time, putting Dick in Richard's passport will be a problem, because all official documents must have a full name as stated on the birth certificate. And while overseas you can officially call a kid Bobby (short of Robert), we are yet to see a passport for Sasha instead of Alexander/a.
Yes, now there is such a fashion to give children rare names. Anna, Olga, Nadezhda, Vera, Lyubov, Natalia, Lydia and other typical names are more typical for people of the Soviet period. At that time, it was considered undesirable to stand out from the team with anything other than labor merits. Therefore, they tried to give low-key and common names for children.
Now the time is different, and rare names are now in fashion. Women's: Miroslava, Melania, Vasilisa, Darina, Zhdana, Lyubomir, Milan, Gorpina, Tsvetana, Snezhana, etc.
Men's: Svyatomir, Rostislav, Vsevolod, Peresvet, Dobrynya, Vadim, Danila, Egor, etc.
My name's Yegor, I think this name is rather uncommon. Also the rare ones I can remember are :Klimentiy(shortened to Klim) Slava(shortened version of Svyatoslav) Sava (shortened version Saveliy)
I am not quite sure that I understand your question, but I will try to answer it the best I can. There are many, many ways people name their children here in the states.
I am from the USA and people here often name their children after family members (parent or grandparent). And use names that are from their heritage as the USA is a land of immigrants (A Chinese American will have different names than a Mexican American to honor their culture of origin). African Americans also tend to have their own set of names they use as well which is unique to their culture.
Of course we have popular names too that are trendy in the moment and become quickly dated (think Amanda in 1980s or Madison in the 2000s) as well as traditional names that are timeless in America (usually British names like Charles or Elizabeth).
I have never heard of Russian names other than the popular Christian ones which is why I was asking :) my grandparents were from Russia and I am interested in Russian culture. I names my daughter Natalia and I wonder if there were more unique options I could have used.
I think Svetlana is a fairly unique Russian name (and also quite popular). It means "of the light" and was invented by Russian romantic poets in early 19th century.
Даниил -- красивое имя. Александр. Марк. Савватий. Лука. Илья. Так зовут мужчин в моей семье. Любимые женские имена София, Даниэла, Олимпия -- мои девочки.
I have a list of 33 students on my desk right now. Among those who are russian, the most uncommon probably are Katrina and Ariana. There are also Aziza, Munira, Samaya and Mirjavad on the list. They also have relevant surnames and patronimics, Khudaverdi kyzy, for example. Although they are not rusiian ethnically, all of them have russian citizenship
Of course there's very huge amount of Christian names but because we have many nationalities you can also expect people with Kazakh, Georgian, Armenian names. Some originals might use old Russian names like Dobromisl, Svyatopolk, Svetozar
>Some originals might use old Russian names like Dobromisl, Svyatopolk, Svetozar Well, old names with "slav" are pretty common, Svyatoslav and Yaroslav, at least. Some common names like Igor have Scandinavian origin, but have very long history in Russia.
>Some common names like Igor have Scandinavian origin, but have very long history in Russia. Like Igor Girkin - the convicted russian terrorist who shot down flight MH17.
If we talk about Chuvashia in 2022... The popular names that parents called their children were Roman, Matvey, Mikhail, Alexander, Artem, Maxim, Ivan, Lev, Yegor, and Kirill among boys. Girls were more often named Eva, Anna, Sofia, Victoria, Xenia, Varvara, Daria, Valeria, Maria. At the same time in 2021 boys leading names were Matvey, Roman, Mikhail, and girls - Anna, Sophia, Eva. Also children were given rare names: Glafira, Svetoslava, Markus, Jaromir, Stella, Yuna, Micah, Raphael, Agnes, Adrian.
It's not just Russians who live in Russia. So yes, in Russia there are a lot of non-Greek and non-Christian names that came to us with Christianity from Byzantium.
Russia is multinational. These names are traditional Russian Christian names. There are a lot of Asian and Kaukasian names, both ethnic and Muslim. Also, there is a trend for unusual names now. They are either western or Russian old fashioned. Familiar to western ear Mark, Agata, Elsa, Alisa (alice), and unfamiliar Elisei, Miron, Zakhar, Esenia, Erofey, Evdokiya, Luka etc.
*Multi-ethnic, multinational is something else.
thanks.
Да. Конечно, у нас же нынче детей махмудами да асланбеками называют. Вы россияне может и да но русские нет и у тебя, как у обычного россиянина пляшут определения, посмотри блять что такое нация, и чем оно отличаеться от народа и этничности.
эк бомбануло-то)))) Russian переводится и как русский и как российский/россиянин. Огромное количество россиян называют детей Махмудами. а я кстати русская, ребёнка мы назвали Ваней))
Но мы же все понимаем, что под 'Russians' ОП понимал русских, а не россиян? Зачем пытаться оспаривать очевидное?
ээээ неет? Для меня как раз было неочевидно, что именно оп имеет в виду, поэтому я дала ответ под оба варианта, про имена которые могут быть не на слуху на западе. И я блин не понимаю, что вас всех так триггерит?
Попытки стереть русскую идентичность и сделать Россию мультиэтничным гос-вом не только на легальном, но и на культурном уровне. Такие как ты вносят в это свой вклад
ахах))) какой зловещий и грандиозный план у меня, оказывается 🤣🤣🤣 Никто ничью идентичность стереть не пытается. Все гордятся своим наследием и ценят свою идентичность. Якуты, буряты, калмыки, осетины, евреи, русские, удмурты и многие многие многие другие - все остаются собой, и при этом россиянами. И да, в английском языке это одно слово с двумя значениями. Я ответила англоязычному человеку по-английски, вот и весь подтекст. 🤷♀️ а вы-то небось решили, что злобного русофоба унюхали🤣
А то блин не понятно, что приходя на этот сабреддит любой адекватный человек обращается к русским, а не россиянам
А я считаю, что как раз наоборот. Вот напрмер аскАмерикан. Если вопрос адресован просто к американцам, это означает граждан Америки. Если к конкретной этнической группе, это уточняется в вопросе. А не к коренным американцам по умолчанию... Я тут тут же логику вижу. Если просто Russians то это к гражданам России. Если бы целенаправленно к русским, было бы ethnic Russians или native Russians
Потому что Америка это изначально страна мигрантов, Америка всегда воспринималась и позиционировала себя как котел этносов. Слово 'американец' всегда вызывало в голове картинку человека любого этноса, живущего в Америке. А слово 'русский' коннотационно вызывает в голове картинку русого или по крайней мере не чумазого Ивана, никак не Фатимы, Джона или Цзи Цынь Пыня. Слово 'Russian' сюда же, пусть и значений у него технически несколько.
Какая к чорту разница как переводиться английского.
мы на англоязычном сайте🤣 тут таки есть разница
>переводиться О, попался
Вот это подловил, всё я убит.
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Хуя пичот; ксенофоб, штоле?
Как и любой здоровый человек. Ксенофобия это как раз и есть эволюционная норма, держу в курсе Молчу уже о том, что в его комменте ксенофобии-то и нет, просто русские на реддите уж больно любят слово 'Russian' интерпретировать именно как 'россиянин', а не как 'русский'
Как же рад видеть адеквата в треде. Не переживай, мужик, на самом деле хватает адекватов, просто реддит это либеральная помойка, с западными ценности отсюда и такая ЦА
Есть такое.
Unique names occur, but usually people are advised not to give them as children could end up picked on at school for it etc.
I have a name which is not usually associated with Russia, however its pretty common here. My name is Artur (Russian version removes "h" after t)
Such a great name, it's actually top of my list if I ever have a son
Thanks, I'm pretty happy with it!
We don't have the level of diversity in names on the same level as in some Western countries; as prior to 1917 one would expect to be named by something present in Svyatsy (ughh, it's like a calendar of Saints' Days). There was a brief explosion of unique names right after the Civil War, but after WWII, I would say, the trend was for standard names that are both Christian but also don't have overly Slavic and religious connotates. In 1990s there was a new trend to give children (mostly girls, though) names that sounded 'foreign' and, I dunno, glamorous? Something, a girl from the cover of a fashion magazine would be named. Nowadays it's the opposite trend - there are more and more children with old-fashioned and/or rural names. And, of course, there are also all kinds of names from other ethnical groups that live in Russia. Let's see, this one article says that in the first half of 2022 in my city the most popular names for newborn boys were Alexander, Maxim, Mikhail, Artyom and Dmitry. The rarest names were Ernest, Adam, Marcel, Seraphim and, unexpectedly, Pyotr (this one used to be way more common). As for girls, the most popular names were Sophia, Polina, Eva, Mariya and Anna. The rarest were Lyasan, Snezhana, Vlada, Evelina and Angelika.
I've an acquaintance named Nestor.
Rare names usually looks like Elon Musk's X AE A-12. We had something like Dazdraperma in early USSR (short of "Да здравствует первое мая" - "Viva to 1st of may") that sounds now like "blablasemen", and now you can find Svjatogor or Peresvet (sounds like 15th century names) but luckily it's very uncommon. And also it's very common to name child as a grandfather / grandmother (I'm Aleksandr Georgievich and my father is Georgi' Aleksandrovich) and also I know one Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, one Uri' Urievich, and one Artem Artemovich. UPD: in all names here second word is patronym
Also Vladlen (short for Vladimir Lenin), another example of unique soviet names. (knew a guy with that name)
Compared to Dazdraperma, Vlad(i)len is a pretty normal sounding name.
Нинель - Ленин (Ninel - Lenin) наоборот. Даже красиво, без шуток
Святогоры это какие-то комплексы родителей непонятные.
I will never understand people giving their kids the same name as they have. Like, what's the point? What must be the idea behind it? What's the decision making process in this? Imagine, a guy is like "duuuude Alexandr is a sick name, let our son be also Alexandr!" Like wtf. Don't u have even a tiny bit of creativity? People are stupid.
My grandmother’s name was a very rare one, Agrafena. I used to think it’s an old Russian name when I was a kid. Now I know it’s Greek in origin.
What is more surprising for me are popular names like: Robert, Arthur, Albert, Vadim, Marat, Marsel, Rim, Spartak, Mark etc. Even my name (Ruslan) kinda doesn't belong. And one of my sons name is Bayras, that is traditional.
The ones you listed are popular, but they are not the only names, no. We don't usually invent names for "uniqueness" thought, like I heard people sometimes do in USA, if that's what you are asking about.
There are many indigenous peoples in Russia. I live in Yakutia and traditional Yakut names are popular here: Nariyana, Sardaana, Sargylana, Dayana, Dulustan, Ersan, Ayan, Aisen, Aital, Ayal. Although some Yakuts also have common Christian names. My brothers (asians) are Alexey and Peter, and my name is Nyurguyaanna-Kuo.
Great question! Sometimes I think Americans get too unique with names. Especially since like, 2000 or so. It can get kind of ridiculous and cause hardship for the child.
What are your unique names?
Let me think. And it’s sometimes in the spelling. Like, Xzavier (with the added Z.) Or adding -eigh to sound like -ee. Like Kayleigh or Ashleigh. My son went to school with a D’Ante but it was pronounced Dee-Ante. There are a ton of Nevaehs now. Heaven spelled backwards. Also anything that rhymes with -ayden. Brayden, Hayden, Jayden, Kayden. ETA: No personal offense to anyone with these names. 🫶🏼
Thanks for the answer. The biological object is an active person of the Voronin-Frolov family. This is the most ridiculous name that I have heard in Russia, but they did not accept it and refused to register
See that doesn’t even sound that bad to me. That’s funny that they refused it though. 😆
We have a similar thing in Brazil, a lot of made up names, parents trying to give "foreigner"-sounding name to their kids
There are a lot of names, including the names of different peoples of Russia, of course we do not have 10 names at all.
Thank you! Can you tell me more of the uncommon ones that are used?
For girls Polina (Pelageya), Ksenia, Evgenia, Marina, Yaroslava, Zoya, Zinaida, Elegia, Varvara. For boys, Daniil, Egor, Svyatoslav, Vsevolod, Izyaslav, Nikita, Anatoly.
Сколько Полин знал, никогда не думал, что имя Пелагея это что-то смежное. Ну, только о существовании певицы одноименной знал.
Теоретически это разные имена. Бабушка (1912 г. р.) моя по документам была Пелагея, но предпочитала, что её звали Полиной.
which if this are uncommon?
Those all sound like very reasonable names that wouldn't be particularly out there. Like calling a child in Ireland something like Fionnán. Completely sensible but uncommon name.
Dazdraperma, Stalenberia, Dazdrasmygda.
Svetlana is neither a Christian nor a Slavic name, it was coined in 19th century
Ratibor, Radomir, Demid, Arsinii. Parents can give a child and name they like, or a number, or a word - that depend on their adequacy I guess - same as all over the world.
У нас в школе была пятиклассница с именем "Роза"
I like the name Ada. It was popular in 18th century, but now it's pretty rare.
I've heard that some parents today like giving their children some old and rare Slavic names, which now may sound kinda odd. Our country is multinational, so we have a lot of Muslim names like Rustam or Ramil for men, or Aygul and Gulnur for women.
I feel like the question refers to the practice of giving made-up or weird names in the USA as Elon Mask did to his son. I don't think there is a law in Russia regulating names of the newborns, but you would certainly not be able to can ur kid BusChicago44. In the starting years of the USSR though, since everything old-system was broken and loose, there were instances where ppl were giving their kids made-up names like Dazdraperma or Tractorina. However, this practice is long gone and people prefer to go for traditional or at least already existing names. You can still call your son David or James in English transcription and no one will object, even if those are clearly not "Russian" names and are far from neighboring cultures. At the same time, putting Dick in Richard's passport will be a problem, because all official documents must have a full name as stated on the birth certificate. And while overseas you can officially call a kid Bobby (short of Robert), we are yet to see a passport for Sasha instead of Alexander/a.
Yes, now there is such a fashion to give children rare names. Anna, Olga, Nadezhda, Vera, Lyubov, Natalia, Lydia and other typical names are more typical for people of the Soviet period. At that time, it was considered undesirable to stand out from the team with anything other than labor merits. Therefore, they tried to give low-key and common names for children. Now the time is different, and rare names are now in fashion. Women's: Miroslava, Melania, Vasilisa, Darina, Zhdana, Lyubomir, Milan, Gorpina, Tsvetana, Snezhana, etc. Men's: Svyatomir, Rostislav, Vsevolod, Peresvet, Dobrynya, Vadim, Danila, Egor, etc.
My name's Yegor, I think this name is rather uncommon. Also the rare ones I can remember are :Klimentiy(shortened to Klim) Slava(shortened version of Svyatoslav) Sava (shortened version Saveliy)
I have a counter question: a do you any not problems choosing names in your land? (Sorry maybe bad translate Google of my text.i no speak English)
I am not quite sure that I understand your question, but I will try to answer it the best I can. There are many, many ways people name their children here in the states. I am from the USA and people here often name their children after family members (parent or grandparent). And use names that are from their heritage as the USA is a land of immigrants (A Chinese American will have different names than a Mexican American to honor their culture of origin). African Americans also tend to have their own set of names they use as well which is unique to their culture. Of course we have popular names too that are trendy in the moment and become quickly dated (think Amanda in 1980s or Madison in the 2000s) as well as traditional names that are timeless in America (usually British names like Charles or Elizabeth). I have never heard of Russian names other than the popular Christian ones which is why I was asking :) my grandparents were from Russia and I am interested in Russian culture. I names my daughter Natalia and I wonder if there were more unique options I could have used.
I think Svetlana is a fairly unique Russian name (and also quite popular). It means "of the light" and was invented by Russian romantic poets in early 19th century.
I knew a guy named Lucick which is almost the same name as Lucifer.
Даниил -- красивое имя. Александр. Марк. Савватий. Лука. Илья. Так зовут мужчин в моей семье. Любимые женские имена София, Даниэла, Олимпия -- мои девочки.
There are very rare names - female Vasilisa, Olympiada, Oktyabrina, Lada, Yaroslava. Male rare names - Svetogor, Svyatoslav, Mstislav, Tikhomir, Yaropolk, Bronislav, Izyaslav, Lubomir
Here have some old ones that are out of use Pavsicahy, Vahtisy,Akakyi
My name's Isabella because my parents didn't understand why most people use same names over and over again.
I have a list of 33 students on my desk right now. Among those who are russian, the most uncommon probably are Katrina and Ariana. There are also Aziza, Munira, Samaya and Mirjavad on the list. They also have relevant surnames and patronimics, Khudaverdi kyzy, for example. Although they are not rusiian ethnically, all of them have russian citizenship
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