A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather, or an earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.
Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's given name and patronymic name in countries influenced by rule of the Russian Empire and more significantly the Soviet Union which enacted widespread Russification in culture, lingua franca, alphabet and customs.
The term von[fɔn] is used in German language surnames either as a nobiliary particle indicating a noble patrilineality, or as a simple preposition used by commoners that means of or from.
Ervin Zádor was a Hungarian water polo player and member of the Hungarian national team.
Kozloduy is a town of 13,771 inhabitants in northwest Bulgaria, located in Vratsa Province, on the Danube River. The city was liberated from Ottoman rule on 23 November 1877 by the Romanian Army under the command of the Imperial Russian Army. Kozloduy is best known for the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant, which is located nearby, as well as the second-largest Bulgarian Danubian island, Kozloduy Island. The city is also known for the ship Radetski, the boat in which the poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev and with 200 others crossed the Danube River in a final attempt to gather an army and liberate Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire.
Kovalchuk, Kavalchuk, Kowalczuk (Polish), also transliterated as a German adaptation Kowalchuk, is a common East Slavic surname. The Kovalchuk name extends back to before 1500 AD in the Kievan Rus.
The "Blood in the Water" match was a water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The match took place on 6 December 1956 against the background of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and saw Hungary defeat the USSR 4–0. The name was coined after Hungarian player Ervin Zádor emerged during the last two minutes with blood pouring from above his eye after being punched by Soviet player Valentin Prokopov.
Kovalyov, often spelled as Kovalev, or its feminine variant Kovalyova, Kovaleva (Ковалёва), is a common Russian surname, an equivalent of the English Smithson.
Znojmo District is one of seven districts (okres) within South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the town of Znojmo.
Vladi or Vlady may refer to the following people
Volchkov is a Russian surname. The origin comes from "волк", wolf. The Belarusian variant is Voltchkov.
Bondarev or Bondareva is a Russian surname, derived from the word "бондарь" (cooper). It may refer to:. Notable people with the surname include:
Prokopov is a village and municipality (obec) in Znojmo District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.
Sapozhnikov or Sapozhnikova is a Russian surname, derived from the Russian word "сапожник" (cobbler/shoemaker/bootmaker). Notable people with the surname include:
Shevtsov is a Russian-language surname derived from the Ukrainian term shvets for "cobbler/shoemaker", literally meaning "child of cobbler".
An Azerbaijani name consists of an ad (name), ata adı (patronymic), and soyad (surname).
