AmelinafRussian Feminine form of Amelin. This was borne by Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina (1986-2023), who died at age 37 from injuries sustained during the Russian attack on Kramatorsk.
ApelsinovmRussian From Russian aпельсин (apel'sin) meaning "orange (fruit)". Probably denoted to someone who worked with oranges or lived by orange trees.
ArchakiGreek (Rare) Possibly means "lord" or "ruler" from Greek derivative archos.
ArifovmCrimean Tatar, Uzbek Means "son of Arif". Saide Arifova was a Crimean Tatar woman who saved roughly 75 children among others from the Nazis and the NKVD.
AzovRussian, Ukrainian From the Sea of Azov. Probably denoted to somebody who lived on the Azov coast. Alternatively, it can denote to someone from a village called Azov.
BabrauskasmLithuanian Ultimately from the Balto-Slavic element *bébrus meaning "beaver". It is possibly an adaptation of Polish Bobrowski, or a related Slavic surname.
BabushkinmRussian, Jewish Derived from Russian бабушка (babushka) meaning "grandmother".
BeriaGeorgian, Mingrelian (?) Beria is a form of Beridze. It was the last name of Lavrentiy Beria, a notable Soviet secret police officer.
BeriyaGeorgian (Russified) Russified form of Beria. This is the way the last name of Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the NKVD from 1938-1946, last name was spelled in the official Soviet language (Russian).
BezdenezhnykhRussian Means "without money", from Russian денежных (denezhnykh) meaning money and prefix без (bez) meaning without. Denoted to a very very poor person.
BezhenarRussian Means "refugee". Though this is a Russian last name, it is more common in Ukraine.
BezrodnykhRussian Possibly derived from без (bez) "without" and родной (rodnoy) "native".
BlinovmRussian From Russian блин (blin), meaning "potato pancake".
BlyzynskyimUkrainian Derived from Ukrainian близнюки (blyznyuky) meaning "twins".
BobrowskiPolish Habitational name for someone from a place called Bobrowa, Bobrowo, Bobrowce, or Bobrowiec, all deriving from Polish bóbr, meaning "beaver".
BocharovmRussian Derived from Russian word "бочка (bochka)" meaning barrel.... [more]
BochkarovmRussian Derived from Russian word "бочка (bochka)" meaning barrel.... [more]
BolkonskiymRussian, Literature Bolkonsky is the last name of Princess Marya Bolkonskaya from "War and Peace" by Lev Tolstoy. It is a real last name outside of literature as well.
BombaPortuguese, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak From bomba "bomb", (Latin bombus), hence probably a nickname for someone with an explosive temperament, or a metonymic occupational name for an artilleryman.
BrezhnevmRussian Denoted a person from a village called Brezhnevo. The most notable bearer was Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), a leader of the Soviet Union.
BryzgalovmRussian Derived from Russian "брызг (bryzg)" meaning spray.
BrzozowskimPolish Habitational name for someone from a place named Brzozowa, Brzozowice, or Brzozowo, all derived from Polish brzoza, meaning "birch tree".
BurdonskymRussian Burdonsky is Aleksandr Burdonsky's, Iosif Stalin's grandson (son of Vasiliy Stalin), last name. He took his wife's name to avoid negative connotation.
DovbykUkrainian Means "one who works with wood", from Ukrainian довбати (dovbaty), which means "to dig, to make a hole, to cut out" (referring to wood in this case).
DovhanichRusyn From Rusyn довгий (dovhyy), meaning "long". This spelling of the last name is rare in the modern day due to Rusyn assimilation with other cultures. For the more common form modernly, see Dovhanych.
DzhigurdaAbkhaz (Russified) The highest percentage of registered communists in Russia's last name is Dzhigurda, and people with this last name in the US are about 8% more likely to be registered communists than the average American.