Thread: Russian Naming

Originally Posted by Doomer

This is not correct
My daughter being a citizen of the US and Russia has two passports, both with no patronymic
The reason of that is when we as parents filled up application for the US birth certificate we didn't put any middle names there. Later when we came to Russian embassy to confirm her Russian citizenship we had to provide exact translation of her birth certificate with the original US birth certificate with the apostille. Turns out the rules are - no middle name in the US birth certificate - no patronymic in Russian documents

I'm pretty sure even that doesn't cover it. I have Russian friends whose eldest son was born in the UK, and when they registered his birth they gave him a patronymic as his middle name, specifically because they thought that would allow them to transfer it to his Russian documentation as an отчество later. No go though, neither the Russian embassy in London nor whichever government branch they tried to deal with at home in Petrozavodsk would recognise "middle name" from his UK birth certificate as an "отчество", so the poor kid has ended up with a passport that says

фамилия: Петров
имя: Никита Владимирович
отчество:

Which is worse than if they'd just not given him a middle name.

Thank you for responding.

Спасибо за ответы.