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I love them. Everything not linked is still in the submitted database (except Grechin, the medieval, Russian version of Gratian.)

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I like/love*:

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Aleksandr / Alexandr / Sasha* / Sanya / Shura
Aleksey / Aleksei / Alexei*
Anastasiy*
Anikita
Arkady
Arseniy*
Dmitri* / Mitya
Evgeniy* / Evgeni / Yevgeniy / Zhenya*
Feodosiy/ Fedya
Ghenadie
Grechin
Ilya / Ilia / Iliya
Kostya
Kyprian
Luka
Maksim
Matvey
Misha*
Nikita* / Nika
Nikolai / Nikolay / Kolya / Kolyan
Pasha
Ruslan
Sergei / Sergey / Seryozha (Fun fact: Most of my childhood, I said I was going to fall in love with someone named Sergio or Sergei. I live in South Carolina, USA so this was a bold statement considering I had never even met one. Years later, a very attractive Russian man started working at my company in a different department and asked me out through a friend. I barely knew who he was and I had never had a boyfriend. But his name was Cergey. We dated for about a year and it didn't work out, but I always thought that was a really cool coincidence.)

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This message was edited 1/20/2021, 5:35 AM

I have always really loved Anastasia.

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Others I like:

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Alexei
Anya
Feofil
Irina
Ivan
Katya
Marina
Matvei
Milena
Nadezhda
Natalia
Oksana
Vera
Yeva
Zhanna

I like Artem, Dmitri, Grisha, Verusha, Yuri, Zinaida of the ones you mentioned.

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These are other ones I like...

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Avdotya / Dunya
Antonina
Darya
Zoya
Galina / Gala
Agnessa
Glafira
Sonya
Nadya
Ninel
Praskovya
Stefaniya
Shura
Oksana
Vitaliya
Valentina

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Ardalion
Konstantin
Isidor
Lazar
Sofron
Nikolai
Pasha
Yeruslan / Ruslan
Vanya

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Igor and Olga are interesting to me kind of in a GP way.

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I'm guessing there are other names used in Russia that I would like, but I limited myself to the ones BtN calls Russian.

My favorites are Konstantin, Akim, Afanasy and Maria.

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I love a lot of diminutives too. Vasya and Alyosha!!

Aglaya "Glasha"
Alesya / Olesya
Arkadiy
Dmitriy "Mitya"
Esfir
Innokentiy
Kseniya
Leonid
Leontiy
Lyudmila "Lyusya"
Valeryan
Vasiliy "Vasya"
Vladislav "Slava"
Vsevolod "Seva"
Yekaterina "Katya"
Yemelyan
Yeruslan / Ruslan
Yeseniya
Yevfimiya
Yevlampiy & Yevlampiya "Lampa"

This message was edited 1/16/2021, 12:39 PM

I literally just made a post about the Top 50 names in Russia (because I'd never seen the list on BtN before, didn't even know they collected the data); and now I see another post about Russian names! Everyone must be in a Russian mood, lol.

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From your list, I like Anastasia, Annushka (though I prefer the Anoushka spelling), Dmitri (Dimitri), Tatiana, and Zinaida (Zenaida / Zenais). I also like:

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Nikolai
Nikandr
Roman
Valerian
Timofei
Alexei
Yevgeny (which is funny, because I really dislike Eugene)
Ilya
Andrei
Taras
Avenir
Benedikt (Benedict)
Demyan
Yermolai
Faddei
Iosif
Isidor (Isidore)
Kazimir (Kaz is a cool nickname)
Lazar
Nazar
Radimir
Rafail (Raphael)
Sevastian (Sebastian)
Vadim
&
Sabina
Venera
Alisa
Varvara
Veronika (Veronica)
Kseniya (Xenia)

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This message was edited 1/16/2021, 12:01 PM

I fell in love with Arkady (and Arcadius) this fall. It's so satisfying to say! I love the meaning, too.

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Other favorites are Agrafena, Anastas, Avdotya, Bronislav, Ermolai, Feofan, Glafira, Illarion, Innokenty, Ludmila, Nikifor, Olga, Praskovya, Rodion, Ruslan, Serafima, Ulyana, Vasilisa, Vissarion, and Vitaliya.

This message was edited 1/16/2021, 10:28 AM

Fro your list I like Artem, Grisha, Verusha and Zinaida.

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Mine are:

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Aglaya
Anfisa
Elizaveta - If I ever have a daughter this will most likely be her name
Lizaveta
Zinoviya
Valeria
Shura

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Anisim
Alyosha
Artemy
Boris / Borya
Faddei
Fedya
Gennady / Genya
Igor
Konstantin
Leonid / Lenya (this is my son's name)
Lev
Nikanor
Nikita
Nikodim
Nikolai
Pasha
Piotr
Sasha
Yakov
Yefim
Yemelyan
Yermolai

This message was edited 1/16/2021, 8:40 AM

Snowing here too! I love Annushka, Fedora, Grisha, Milena, Natasha, Verusha, Zinaida

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Also: Agnessa, Albina, Anfisa, Anushka, Dina, Dessa, Fisba, Fotina, Matryoshka, Milolika, Onoslava, Rimma, Stalina, Sasha, Verushka, Vlada, Yelizaveta, Olga, Zelfa, Zabava, Zhenev'eva, Zorya

I like Aleksandr, especially with the NN Sasha or Sashka. I also love Ilya. My ancestry is Bulgarian, so I would actually consider using those names in real life as they are used in Bulgaria also.

I like Aleksandr, especially with the NN Sasha or Sashka. I also love Ilya. My ancestry is Bulgarian, so I would actually consider using those names in real life as they are used in Bulgaria also.

I love Russian names some of my favorites are:

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Aleksander
Nikolai
Arkady
Valeri
Natalya
Mikhail
Olga
Ekaterina
Nadia
Svetlana
Irina
Dmitri

Oh, I love that association!

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My favourites are Anastasia, Anushka, Ekaterina / Yekaterina, Elizaveta, Avdotya, Aleksei & Nikolai. Fedora is one of those names that I sometimes adore and sometimes find very strange.

Hahaha same here!

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I love:

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Anastasia
Liliya

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Andrey or Andrei

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I also like Anya, Katia and Sonya or Sonia. I kind of like Nadezhda but it is too complicated to use.

Mine are Vera and Lev, although there are so many good ones.