Word origins

• esaulThe head of a group or unit of Cossacks.
• EtokaA river in Stavropol Krai, Russia.
• EvenkA member of the Evenki people of Northeastern Asia (formerly called the Tungus people).
• EvenkiA Tungusic language spoken in Russia, Mongolia and China.
• face controlThe policy, in upscale nightclubs, of restricting entry based on a bouncer's snap judgment of the suitability of a person's looks, money, style or attitude.
• fartsovkaIn the Soviet Union, the illegal trade of acquiring desirable consumer goods and currency from foreigners.
• fartsovshchikA person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.
• feldscherIn Russia, one with practical but not formal medical training.
• fenyaA Russian cant language used among criminals.
• FeodosiaA port and resort city and raion in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia.
• FeschukA surname from Russian.
• FilatievA transliteration of the Russian surname Филатьев (Filatʹjev).
• FilatyevA transliteration of the Russian surname Филатьев (Filatʹjev).
• fortochkaA small ventilation window, spanning the frame of one window pane, that opens on hinges independently of the whole window, common in Russia, other post-Soviet states and Finland.
• GalichA town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, situated on the southern bank of Lake Galichskoye.
• galyakA flat, glossy kind of fur obtained from a newborn or stillborn lamb or kid (goat).
• GamburtsevA surname from Russian
• garnetzAn old Russian measure, one eighth of a chetverik.
• GavriilA transliteration of the Russian male given name Гаврии́л (Gavriíl).
• GenukhA village in Tsuntinsky district, Dagestan, Russia.
• GershengornA surname.
• GilyakNivkh
• GlavsetA Russian agency engaged in online propaganda on behalf of Russian business and political interests.
• GoloiadA surname.
• GolojadA surname.
• golomyankaEither of two species of fish of the family Cottidae, endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia (Comephorus baicalensis and Comephorus dybowskii).
• GoloyadA surname.
• golubtsyRussian cabbage rolls.
• goparSynonym of gopnik.
• Gorno-BadakhshanAn autonomous region of Tajikistan, home to the Pamir mountains and peoples. Capital: Khorugh.
• GoskinoThe State Committee for Cinematography of the Soviet Union.
• GosplanThe State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union.
• GrafovkaA settlement, the administrative centre of the rural settlement of the same name in Krasnaya Yaruga Raion, Belgorod Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
• grenkiToasts or croutons fried lightly in butter or vegetable oil, until crisp and brown.
• GrischaA diminutive of the male given name Grigorij or Grigori, from Russia and other Slavic countries, equivalent to English Greg.
• grivnaa unit of currency and weight in medieval Rus.
• groudA heap, or mathematical generalization of a group, in abstract algebra.
• guberniyaA major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire; a governorate or province.
• GumenyukA transliteration of the Russian surname Гуменюк (Gumenjuk).
• gusliA plucked psaltery-like string instrument, usually played on the lap and sometimes created with table legs so that the musician can play it seated next to the instrument, originating in ancient Russian music.
• hardbassA subgenre of electronic music from Russia, characterized by heavy basslines and a fast tempo.
• IglinoA rural locality in Bashkortostan, Russia.
• IgnatyA transliteration of the Russian male given name Игна́тий (Ignátij).
• ikraRoe of the salmon.
• IllarionovaA surname from Russian
• imaginismA Russian avant-garde poetic movement, founded in 1918, whose members created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images.
• IndigirkaA river in Sakha, Russia.
• inogorodnieNon-Cossack immigrants to Cossack-controlled land in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• IoniA large freshwater lake in Chukotsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
• irbissnow leopard (large feline mammal, Panthera uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)
• ispravnicChief police officer of a district in pre-revolutionary Russia (1775–1862).
• IturupThe largest and northernmost island in the southern Kuril Islands, disputed between Japan and Russia.
• IulianovA transliteration of the Russian surname Иулиа́нов (Iuliánov).
• IuliyanovA transliteration of the Russian surname Иулия́нов (Iulijánov).
• Ivan IvanovichAn anonymous or stereotypical Russian man; a Russian John Smith, John Q. Public or Joe Q. Public.
• izbaa Russian log hut
• izhitsaThe obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѵ, ѵ, formerly used in Russian to represent upsilon in borrowed words.
• jarovizationSynonym of vernalization.
• KabardiaA former country in the Caucasus region of Europe; historically home to the Kabardians.
• KadyrovtsyKadyrovites (collectively).
• KalgaA rural locality in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.
• kalistrontiteA trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral colorless mineral containing oxygen, potassium, strontium, and sulfur.
• kamarinskayaA traditional Russian folk dance.
• kapishcheA pre-Christian shrine from Slavic cultures, usually in the form of a field, a sacred fire, and an idol of a god.
• Kapustin YarA military reservation in Kapustinoyarsky, Akhtubinsky district, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Seat: Znamensk
• KarachevA town in Karachevsky urban settlement, Karachevsky Raion, Bryansk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1146.
• KarakulovA transliteration of the Russian surname Каракулов (Karakulov).
• KaratauA mountain range in Kazakhstan, the westernmost extension of the Tian Shan.
• KarpakA surname from Russian.
• katorgaA tsarist or Soviet labour camp.
• kazatskySynonym of kozachok
• kendirA strong bast fibre from the plant Apocynum venetum.
• Khabarovsk KraiA krai of Russia, in the Russian Far East.
• KhaimovA surname from Russian.
• KhakasA Turkic-speaking people in South Central Siberia, who lives along the upper reach of the Yenisei River north of the Sayan Mountains.
• KhalkhaA member of a subgroup of Mongol people, constituting the bulk of the population of Mongolia.
• khalturaBlack-market or low-quality work.
• KhamdamovA transliteration of the Uzbek surname Xamdamov.
• Khan TengriA mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range in Inner and Central Asia.
• Khanty-MansiyskA city, the administrative center of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
• KharbinSynonym of Harbin.
• KharpAn urban-type settlement in the Priuralsky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
• kharzaSynonym of yellow-throated marten.
• KhasanAn urban-type settlement in Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russia.
• KhasanskyA district of Primorsky Krai, Russia.
• KhatangaA river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
• khleb(A type of) Russian bread.
• KhlystA member of an underground religious movement that split off from the Russian Orthodox Church in 17th century.
• kholodetsA pork jelly or aspic traditionally eaten in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
• kholopA feudally dependent person in Russia between the 10th and early 18th centuries.
• KhorgasA county-level city of Ili, Xinjiang autonomous region, China on the border with Kazakhstan.
• khorovoda Slavic art form, a combination of a circle dance and chorus singing, similar to chorea of ancient Greece, also in Romania (horă)
• KhotetovaA hamlet in Koptevskoye rural settlement, Znamensky Raion, Oryol Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
• KhotetovoA village in Yamskoye rural settlement, Bolkhovsky Raion, Oryol Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, founded in or before the fourteenth century.
• khramulyaAny one of several species of freshwater cyprinids in the genus Capoeta.
• KhristoforA male given name from Russian.
• khrushchevkaA kind of low-cost apartment building constructed in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s.
• khutorA single-homestead rural settlement of Eastern Europe.
• kibitkaA Russian type of telega or sleigh with a (usually rounded) cover over the passenger seats.
• kikimoraa female house spirit in the Slavic mythology