Quote Originally Posted by SoftScorpio
an... Russian name is always ending on -ev or -ov, as son of....
Really? What about Paul Nipkov- he was a german inventor, Willhelm Gustlov - he was a german man and a ship... and so on. What about the name "Kaluzhskiy" - "...of Kaluga", is it russian? What about the name Preobrazhenskiy, Bogolubskiy? Are the russian names Silin or Puzin? It is not so easy.