Word origins

• aThe first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
• beUsed with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
• deThe name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д.
• evenFlat and level.
• progressMovement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
• daFather.
• emThe name of the Latin script letter M/m.
• holdingSomething that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
• yaYeah; yes.
• intelligentOf high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
• geThe name of the Cyrillic script letter Г / г.
• yeYou (the people being addressed).
• yoA greeting similar to hi.
• sovietA workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
• begunHaving begun.
• popeAn honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
• veThe name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
• yuAn ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
• KazakhstanA country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan. Capital: Astana.
• UzbekistanA country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan. Capital: Tashkent.
• gradA type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this.
• oba halfpenny
• cheThe letter Ч, ч.
• ninaA hidden message revealed in the completed grid of a crossword.
• gopSynonym of gopnik.
• shaThe letter Ш, ш.
• VladimirA transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, Russian, or Serbo-Croatian male given name Владимир (Vladimir), equivalent to Volodymyr, popular throughout the history of Slavic countries and societies.
• BorisA male given name from the Slavic languages.
• kochA wooden sailing ship of Russian design for use in the Arctic.
• mirA traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands.
• mammothAny species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
• levinLightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.
• FSBThe Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
• chuThe sound of a kiss.
• OdessaA port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
• NatashaA female given name from Russian, Ukrainian borrowed from Russian in the twentieth century, diminutive of Natalia and Natalya.
• SoniaA female given name from Russian (the usual UK spelling of the name which is spelled Sonya in the US).
• LenaA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• kievA dish like chicken Kiev, with substitutes for the chicken, sauces or other components, to fit dietary restrictions such as vegetarianism.
• yerA member of Generation Y.
• tetrisThe act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.
• migA milligram
• StalinSynonym of Hitler (“a dictatorial person”).
• BucharestThe capital city of Romania.
• tundraA flat and treeless Arctic biome.
• chaiA female Romani.
• kamaA sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.
• permTo give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc.
• lanaThe tree Genipa americana.
• MikhailA transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl).
• rebShortened form of Rebbe.
• tseThe Cyrillic letter Ц, ц.
• yuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between women.
• yamAny climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
• NikitaA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• KasperskyA surname from Russian
• OlegA male given name from the Slavic languages.
• kiraAn ankle-length dress traditionally worn by women in Bhutan.
• DmitryA transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij).
• svrThe civilian external intelligence directorate of Russia
• MinskThe capital city of Belarus.
• jerTwo historical Slavic vowels and their corresponding Cyrillic and Glagolitic letters; the vowels were short (possibly ultrashort), and possibly reduced. They were front jer (ь, Ⱏ) and back jer (ъ, Ⱐ). During the development of Slavic languages in certain positions they underwent weakening and were lost (weak jers), and elsewhere retained (strong jers).
• IrinaA female given name from Russian.
• kinoA botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
• turAny member of the species Capra caucasica (West Caucasian tur) or Capra cylindricornis (East Caucasian tur) of wild goats native to Caucasus.
• dumaA Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).
• TbilisiThe capital city of the country of Georgia.
• AsimovA surname.
• IvanovA transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Иванов (Ivanov).
• SitkaA member of an indigenous tribe of people from Baranof Island, in the area of Sitka, Alaska.
• KGBThe Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).
• ChernobylA major nuclear-energy accident.
• czarAn appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
• brestA port city in the department of Finistère, and the region of Brittany, France.
• AndreyA transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.
• TolstoyA transliteration of the Russian surname Толстой (Tolstoj).
• TashkentThe capital city of Uzbekistan.
• kazana cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine
• KazakhA person from Kazakhstan or of that descent.
• tsarAn emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
• LeningradFormer name of Saint Petersburg: a major city in Russia, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991.
• NovosibirskA city, the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia.
• samaraThe winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.
• UralRelating to the Ural Mountains.
• nevaA river in Russia, on which the Saint Petersburg city is located.
• volgaAny of several automobiles of the same brand manufactured by GAZ in the Soviet Union and Russia.
• SoyuzAny of a series of Soviet/Russian space capsules
• kolaA tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
• tugrikThe Mongolian unit of currency; abbreviated MNT, ₮; formerly subdivided into 100 möngö.
• NovgorodAn oblast in northwestern Russia.
• sputnikAny of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
• vintTo make wine from fruit.
• ProkofievA transliteration of the Russian surname Прокофьев (Prokofʹjev).
• IliAn automonous prefecture in Northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
• YashaA diminutive Яша of the Russian/Ukrainian male given name Яков (Jákov)/Яків (Jákiv), equivalent to English Jake
• AleksandrA transliteration of the Russian male given name Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr)
• KarabakhA geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia. It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes) and a part of Syunik.
• KaliningradAn oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
• innaIn the.
• bolshevikA Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.