Thread: I Am Very Confused And Need Help Please

Well, the English equivalent for Iosif is Joseph. So be Joseph Bakhvalov. And forget about your patronymic, just leave it out. Just Joseph Bakhvalov would be okay, both in the UK and in Russia.

P.S. Anyway, it was cruel and stupid, to give a kid such name being a father named Vissarion.

so do i just get rid off the middle name or i can change it right?
after reading that article it does make me want to change it.

Originally Posted by iosifbakhvalova

so do i just get rid off the middle name or i can change it right?

Why do you need any middle name? Just get rid of it, of course.

yeah i guess so , well i will leave at that .this post has been going all day i thank you for your help.
спасибо

wow- i cant believe you people dont know who is joseph stalin, that is like saying you dont know who is adolf hitler.

Originally Posted by Tamerlane

wow- i cant believe you people dont know who is joseph stalin

"We people"? Or maybe the topic starter?

This is a load of rubbish.

1. Russian passports have the name written in both Russian and English, so that when the person travels to a country that doesn't use Cyrillic, the immigration people / police, whatever, can read the person's details.
2. Even if you can't read Russian, you must know what your surname is, or if you don't your mother/father will know what it is.
3. I don't know how old you are but I expect your Russian passport from when you were a child must have expired by now, so you must have another passport with your surname on...

The only explanation I can find is that when arriving in England (if that's where you live now), because your mother's surname was Bakhvalova, it was just assumed that you'd have the same surname as her, because in English we don't distinguish between male and female surnames.

But I still think this is a big joke.

We have two kinds of passports here. One (for internal use) is a main identification document. It has no latin letters whatsoever. The second one (so called 'foreign passport') is only used when you travel abroad and it has latin transliteration of names.

Anyway a kid can't have a passport. The only inner document a child has is his/her birth certificate (and it's only in Russian of course).

TATY просто, как всегда, не прочел всю тему.

i still cannot believe there are some who think i am fooling you , but that is of your own mind.
i am giving you the full truth and i agree with "TATY" i clearly assumed my name was the same untill learning from the help of some on this site to distinguish between male and female surnames.
again thanks to those who helped me. i have decided NOT to change my name as a friend told me if a person has a problem with it then they can not talk to me or walk away. im happy with it now and i have removed the A from bakhvalov.

Good point, Iosif! Eventually it's you and your name, no matter who tells what.

Originally Posted by Ramil

We have two kinds of passports here. One (for internal use) is a main identification document. It has no latin letters whatsoever. The second one (so called 'foreign passport') is only used when you travel abroad and it has latin transliteration of names.

I know, but as mentioned below, kids don't have their own passports, and also if this guy has left Russia he must have had a zagran. passport (with the name transliterated in Latin) and/or some other kind of immigration documents for whatever country he arrived in.

And Olya, I have read the whole thread, thank you very much.

BTW, I do actually know of someone at my university called Joseph Stalin Bermudez, but I think his parents were Communists or something and possibly Cuban:
http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/unison/slwc/video.htm

Originally Posted by TATY

BTW, I do actually know of someone at my university called Joseph Stalin Bermudez, but I think his parents were Communists or something and possibly Cuban

Yeah, some Cubans have funny "Communistic" names, like Carlos Lenin and such..

I 've just remembered an interview I'd seen on TV when I was a kid (in early 90s or so). It was cool enough so I remembered it for years. Some foreigner (which was unusial in itself and piqued my interest) was sitting in the dark room, so we could see only his outline. The TV host said that that guy asked them "not to show his face" which seemed weird... but foreigners were supposed to be weird, right? )))
He spoke very good, but slightly accented Russian, and talked about various interesting topics: his view of Russia (USSR at the time), his family, his time as a student in Moscow University, some funny episodes from his student life.. etc. I enjoyed it.

Among other things he told that his parents were strong believers in the Communist course, so they named their three sons after V.I.Lenin (or rather gave every boy a corresponding name - Vladimir, Illich or Lenin). This man was the second son so he was Ilich Ramírez Sánchez. I laughed my head off... Does it ring the bell yet?

Yeah... ))) it seems that "the funny guy" was Ilich Ramírez Carlos ("The Jackal") (I realised this much later, of course) I wish we had VCRs then, I'd love to watch that interview again.
For those who doesn't know whom I'm talking about here are the links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рамирес_Санчес,_Ильич

Or maybe you've seen a movie about him: " The Jackal" ("Шакал"), starring Bruce Willis & Richard Gere, or "The Assignment" ("Двойник"), with Aidan Quinn & Donald Sutherland (I love this one).

i see allot of this )) all the time am i correct in saying it is a smile face or? :fool"

Originally Posted by iosifbakhvalova

i see allot of this )) all the time am i correct in saying it is a smile face or? :fool"

Yeah, it 's a smile or a laugh.
We discussed it at length here:
viewtopic.php?p=177915#p177915

thank you ))
and now does anyone knoq , you see my username before i came to this site it was assumed that bakhvalova was my second name but i have been corrected and it is infact bakhvalov can i change it on my profile?

You can't change your username yourself, but if you ask Masteradmin nicely (by sending him a private message), he may change it for you.

thank you

This whole topic still looks like a joke.

After being in russia recently

How can one travel betwen UK and Russia having only one document written in cyrillic ?

i lived in russia until i was about 8 years

I simply can't believe that a person who lived in Russia until 8 y.o. can make such a mistake in his surname. Even if he completely forgot the language.