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I Am Very Confused And Need Help Please
After being in russia recently i get allot of undevoted attention on my name and i have no idea why.
my father is russian and my mum is from the united kingdom.
when i tell people my name i get very strange looks and they say its very unique and im very confused.
maybe i should change it? i do not want undevoted attention.
my name what appears on my passport is:
Iosif vissarionovich bakhvalova
Иосиф Виссарионовича ьакхвалова
I may change it.
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Сегодня вроде не первое апреля.
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what? its february not april? what mae you say that
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Оль, но, ведь, нам с тобой такое имя ровным счётом ничего не говорит - имя как имя. Ведь, это так, Оль?
iosifbakhvalova
I don't know why do people think you have a unique name.
Оль, твои две запятые:
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so you do not think my name is strange?
thank god my friend olga says she has never heard it before? as ive not been in russia for a long stay of time i have not came across anyone with the same name.
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Tell me, what's your father's first name?
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моего отца зовут Виссарион.
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my father is russian
1. Why can't you ask your father about your name?
2. I would never believe that a Russian could give such a name to his child, especially to a girl (the given surname is female).
3. Your spelling doesn't look like a native's one.
4. As I said above, today is not the 1st April, so stop fooling us.
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i am not fooling you and my writing is like that as i cannot write in russian
hand on my heart that is my name which is why it is strange
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i am not a girl , it is your opionion to believe what i am saying to you but i guarantee you it is the truth
my fathers name is vissarion
my name is iosif vissarionovich bakhvalova as it is on my passport maybe i have read the end bit wrong
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However now, after I googled Иосиф Виссарионович, I found the article in Wiki. Seems lke he was something like a Soviet leader. But me or Оля can hardly know him. He died long before our birth.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сталин_Иосиф_Виссарионович
Why didn't you try to google it yourself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
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i did not think of google i cannot read the cyrillic on my passport properly , would it be ok to scan it and upload a picture so you could help read the last name?
like you said its female form have i read it wrong?
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You may scan your passport or credit card number if you wish.
But Iosif Vissarionovich is a name of this old man with mustaches.
Just follow the links above.
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yes and i am telling you i have that same name so if i scanned my passport you would see i am not "fooling" you
i just wanted help not links to other websites.
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Я чето понять не могу, кто над кем прикалывается? :) Leof, что значит "я погуглил" и "похоже, что он был предводителем"? Ты это серьезно?
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Doesn't the article help you to know why your name may astonish some Russian people?
Then I do not know how to help you.
Make a labor - read the article. I would read it and repeat what was said in it for you, but it is you who lives in England, not me - read in English, it will help.
delog, я действительно погуглил и обнаружил сходство между этими именами, я старался лишь бть столь же правдивым, что и OP.
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this man who you have given links to i do not know,but i can assure you that my name is iosif i just need help with the surname which you say is femine how do i read it ?
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Originally Posted by iosifbakhvalova
i just wanted help not links to other websites.
Okay, I'll try to ask again:
Why can't you ask your father about your name? If he's Russian he can answer your questions.
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If you read these our notes, read the article.
Your name should be Iosif Vissarionovich Bakhvalov_, no a in the end.
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becuase my father is not around in the united kingdom. i see why it is shocking to have the name of this man you gave the link for should i change my name?
like i said you have my word that i am not fooling you and i will scan my passport if you need proof
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You must decide yourself should you change your name or not.
If you are going to live in Russia - perhaps you should change your father's name in your pasport, if you about to move to Georgya, yo ubetter change your last name.
But if you prefer to stay in England - leave your good name as it is.
If you are worried about the Russians who are surprized by hearing your name - change your name.
If you don;'t care about Russians who are astonished - do not change your name.
I think I have answered fully.
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i do want to permanently move to moscow in a few years but i am worried i do not want to get into fight or trouble.
so i would have to look into changing it. thanks for your help anyway :)
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Leof, I had been thinking you are Russian, because your Russian is perfect!
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can i just ask , i read the article you posted but it does not explain anything
why is it such a shock to a russian guy or girl ?
ive allot of russian friends who say its weird but dont take offence, should they?
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why is it such a shock to a russian guy or girl ?
All Russians, ABSOLUTELY ALL knows Joseph Stalin as ruthless person who had annihilated millions peoples.
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They should not, Iosif, would you be offenced if anyone introduced himself as Oliver Cromwell or George Bush or Napoleon or Faust?
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no i would not id think oh you have the same name as this guy or women , but like you said i should think about changing it if i go back russia but then again if someone has a problem with my name then that is there problem yes?
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Say, if you would look very like prime minister of England, or had a scary keenship with Hugh Grant. People would stare at you on the streets and finger you and ask you leave thema sign or a photo. Once you'd find it annoing you would try to change your appearance to look not quite like these people.
Same with your name.
If you want not to be always been asked about your name - change it.
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good point :) well thanks anyway
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If you are a guy, and your surname really is Bakhvalova, it sounds very strange, ridiculous and stupid because it's a feminine surname. As Leof said, the masculine one is Bakhvalov. If Bakhvalova is what stands in your passport, it is... really very stupid, SORRY. It makes the whole your name VERY weird.
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my writing is like that as i cannot write in russian
By the way, I didn't mean your writing in Russian, I meant your "allot" and "mae" instead of "a lot" and "may".
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Originally Posted by Оля
If you are a guy, and your surname really is Bakhvalova, it sounds very strange, ridiculous and stupid because it's a feminine surname. As Leof said, the masculine one is Bakhvalov. If Bakhvalova is what stands in your passport, it is... really very stupid, SORRY. It makes the whole your name VERY weird. ...
What if it's one of the names from the Georgian region? E.g. Zurab Sotkilava.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1% ... 0%B2%D0%B0
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like i said my russian reading is very bad so i may have made the mistake which is now seeming more likely , as like you say its feminine and im a guy
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Originally Posted by Lampada
What if it's one of the names from the Georgian region? E.g. Zurab Sotkilava.
Bakhvalov(a) sounds completely Russian. Moreover, I don't think there are feminine Russian surnames that end on "-ava". Only "-ova", "-eva" (if we are talking about names that end on "-v-"). So Sotkilava is not a good example. Even the stress is different.
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Originally Posted by iosifbakhvalova
like i said my russian reading is very bad so i may have made the mistake
Which mistake do you mean? You mean you don't know / remember your name (written in English) quite well and don't remember if it's bakhvalov or bakhvalova? Or that your UK passport is written in Russian?
Listen, I really think you should wait a bit, about one month, till the 1st of April.
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im just gonna go with what Leof said, if my name starts to cause unwanted attention then its up to me to change it or its the other persons problem not mine :)
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right again dude ive told you i am not fooling you , its up to you to believe what im saying,
i do not know the cyrillic alphabet well, and i aslways thought my last name was bakhvalova untill someone on here pointed out that it was femine and could not be correct thus i must have read it wrong. would you like me to scan it so you can have disclosure on you "april " obsession
oh and my passport is russian NOT english
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Originally Posted by iosifbakhvalova
right again dude ive told you i am not fooling you , its up to you to believe what im saying,
i do not know the cyrillic alphabet well, and i aslways thought my last name was bakhvalova
I am sorry, but I don't understand how someone can say "I thought my last name was XXX" if he has a passport. Your last name is what is in your passport. How can you not know what stands there? You cannot think that your name is bla bla bla, you should know what it is. Otherwise you sound very strange.
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Originally Posted by iosifbakhvalova
oh and my passport is russian NOT english
OoooooooOOooH :shock: How's that? How could you come to be abroad without any passport in English??? I thought it's impossible. Please scan your fantastic document for us.
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Originally Posted by Оля
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Originally Posted by Lampada
What if it's one of the names from the Georgian region? E.g. Zurab Sotkilava.
Bakhvalov(a) sounds completely Russian. Moreover, I don't think there are feminine Russian surnames that end on "-
ava". Only "-ova", "-eva" (if we are talking about names that end on "-
v-"). So Sotkilava is not a good example. Even the stress is different.
You know that there is a lot of different ways to spell last names.