Word origins

• BloshinskyA surname from Russian.
• BobrovA surname from Russian.
• bochkaAn old Russian liquid measure, approximately 492 litres.
• bogatyrA medieval heroic warrior in Kievan Rus, akin to the Western European knight-errant.
• BolkhovA town of district significance, the administrative centre of Bolkhovsky Raion, Oryol Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1196.
• BolonkaA colored variation of the all-white Bolognese, a recently developed dog breed from Russia.
• bol'shakThe head of a Russian peasant household; a family patriarch.
• BolshesoldatskyA raion of Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, established in 1928. Seat: Bolshoye Soldatskoye
• BolshevistA Bolshevik.
• Bolshoye SoldatskoyeA village, the administrative centre of Bolshesoldatsky selsoviet and Bolshesoldatsky Raion, Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
• bonisticsThe study and collecting of paper money and banknotes
• BorokName of several rural localities in Russia.
• BorovskA town in Kaluga Oblast, Russia.
• BorovskyA transliteration of the Russian surname Боровский (Borovskij).
• botvinyaA type of Slavic kvass-based cold soup.
• boutylkaA Russian unit of measure equivalent to 1.353 pints, about the capacity of a wine bottle.
• boyarstvoSynonym of boyardom.
• bratvaA Russian organized crime syndicate/family.
• bublikA traditional Eastern European bread roll, consisting of a ring of yeast-leavened wheat dough that has been boiled in water for a short time before baking.
• budyonovkaa distinctive type of hat and an essential part of the Red Army uniform during the Russian Civil War and later
• BukvitsaAn ancient Slavic alphabet (an adaptation of Glagolitic and Cyrillic).
• BulgarismBulgarian nationalism.
• bulochkaA soft, sweet bread roll, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients, popular in Russian and Eastern European cuisine and often enjoyed as snacks or desserts.
• burlakFormerly in Russia, a man employed in dragging barges or ships upstream.
• BurundukiSiberian chipmunk fur.
• ButerinA surname from Russian.
• BuyanIn Russian folklore, a mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide; the home of the Zoryas (solar goddesses) and three brothers representing the Northern, Western, and Eastern Winds.
• bylinaA traditional East Slavic oral epic narrative poem.
• BzybA river in Abkhazia, Georgia.
• cabackA tavern or drinking house
• cantonistA young boy in the Russian Empire who was taken to a special school to be trained for future compulsory military service.
• ChabanA surname.
• chainikA teakettle.
• chak-chakA musical instrument filled with seeds or grain and used as a rattle in traditional Saint Lucian music.
• chapkaA type of hat worn by 19th-century Polish cavalry (and later some Napoleonic troops), consisting of a high, four-pointed cap with regimental insignia on the front, and now associated with Polish independence and nationalism.
• ChardzhouFormer name of Türkmenabat: a city in Turkmenistan.
• chastushkaA type of traditional Russian satirical or ironic folk poetry in quatrains.
• cheburekiDeep-fried turnovers filled with ground meat and onions, a national dish of the Crimean Tatars.
• ChegetA "nuclear briefcase" held by the Russian president and used to control Russia's nuclear forces.
• ChekistAn agent of the Cheka.
• CheremissMari (Finno-Ugric people)
• CherkesskThe capital city of Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia.
• chernozemA fertile black soil containing a very high percentage of humus (3% to 15%) and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia.
• chernukhaA gloomy genre of Russian horror.
• ChernyshevoA village in Velikoustyugsky district, Vologda Oblast, Russia.
• chetverikAn old Russian dry measure, approximately 26.24 litres; one fourth of an osmina.
• chifirA very strong black tea made by a special method popular in Russian prisons
• chinovnikA minor functionary or mere bureaucrat in the Russian government.
• ChishminskyA district of Bashkortostan, Russia.
• chistkaA political purge in Russia.
• chokanyeA shift in some Slavic languages and dialects that causes /ts/ to merge into /tʃ/.
• choochkieThe least auklet, Aethia pusilla (formerly Simorhynchus pusillus).
• chotkiSynonym of komboskini.
• ChudskoyeA large freshwater lake on the border between Russia and Estonia, part of the larger Pskovsko-Chudskoye (Russian)/Peipus (Estonian) lake system.
• ChuguchakTacheng (a county-level city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China).
• ChukotianChukotko-Kamchatkan language family
• ChyornyA surname from Russian; variant form Cherny.
• corsaccorsac fox
• corsac foxa medium-sized Asiatic fox, of species Vulpes corsac.
• coulibiacA loaf of fish, meat, or vegetables baked in a pastry shell.
• daggetTarry oil of European white birch, formerly used in the arts and in medicine.
• DamanskySynonym of Zhenbao: the Russian name.
• Ded MorozA fictional man in Slavic culture who delivers presents to children on New Year's Eve.
• dedovshchinaHazing, the informal system of subjection and physical or sexual abuse of new junior conscripts, formerly in the Soviet Armed Forces and contemporarily in the Russian, Ukrainian, etc. armed forces.
• dedushkaA Russian grandfather.
• DekabristDecembrist
• DelyankirA village in Sakha, Russia.
• DemidovkaA former settlement in Suyetka Raion, Altai Krai, Siberian Federal District, Russia.
• dengaAn obsolete unit of currency in Russia equal to half a kopek.
• DerzhavinA surname
• desantA member of the Russian Airborne Troops.
• desmurgyThe study of medical dressings.
• DevedzhyanA surname from Armenian, variant of Devejyan.
• devotchkaA girl, especially one of Russian descent.
• dezinformatsiyadisinformation, especially in the context of the former Soviet Union
• DishelA surname from Russian.
• diversantA saboteur.
• DobrovskiiA surname from Russian.
• DodonovoA village near Zheleznogorsk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
• DolgeA surname from German.
• doliaAn old Russian unit of weight, approximately 44 milligrams.
• domovoyA type of house sprite from Slavic mythology.
• domraA round-bodied lute of East Slavic origin with either three or four strings.
• DonetsOne of several rivers in Eastern Europe, including but not limited to
• DoukhoborA member of a religious group of Russian origin who rejected the Czarist government of the late 1800s and Russian Orthodox priests, icons, and rituals, aiming to internalize the living spirit of God in each individual.
• DragunovaA feminine surname from Russian
• droshkyAn open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.
• dubokA dead drop.
• DudinkaA port city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, on the Yenisei river.
• DuginA surname from Russian.
• durakA traditional Russian card game in which players attempt to shed all of their cards.
• DyatlovA surname.
• DyboA surname from Russian.
• DzaudzhikauFormer name of Vladikavkaz: the capital city of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia.
• DzerzhinskyA surname from Russian; especially when referring to Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Cheka.
• DzhugdzhurA mountain range in eastern Russia
• edinolichnikA noncollectivized agricultural peasant in the Soviet Union.
• ekranoplana ground-effect vehicle
• ElisabethpolFormer name of Ganja.
• ElizavetA transliteration of the Russian female given name Елизавет (Jelizavet).