Quote Originally Posted by astarz41
Why don't you take everything for granted? LOL
Why do you need special comfirmation?
http://www.doukhobor.org/Commonnames.htm
Because I have never once heard an Oleg referred to as Olya. So I wouldn't recommend coming up to a guy named Oleg and calling him Olya unless you know for sure he'd get it.... :P
I concur. I never heard anyone in Russia use Olya as a diminutive for Oleg, and most Olegs I know would take it as an insult. And this Canadian site can hardly be reragded as an authority on Russian language. Even if some Canadian doukhobor actually used this form in some document, it doesn't mean that it is actually used in Russian language.