Word origins

• bridgeA construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from a height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
• alaskaA state of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Juneau. Largest city: Anchorage. Postal code: AK.
• barsAny event in gymnastics using the bars.
• crashA sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
• RPGTo play a roleplaying game.
• fedoraA felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down.
• LaraA suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• IgorA stock character, the lab assistant to a mad scientist, vampire, or miser frequently depicted as being deformed in some manner, physically and/or psychologically.
• SashaA male given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
• tamaraA condiment popular in Italy, made of powdered cinnamon, cloves, coriander, etc.
• ChechnyaA republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny.
• LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.
• ChechenA member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
• KodiakA Kodiak bear.
• dynamoAn electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.
• MishaA male given name from Russian, Ukrainian.
• KenaiA city, peninsula, and river in Alaska.
• tonyaA trade broker in Japan, usually a wholesaler, warehouse manager, or shipment manager.
• chumA friend; a pal.
• KazakhA person from Kazakhstan or of that descent.
• IlyaA male given name from Russian.
• gulliverone's head.
• valerianA hardy perennial flowering plant, Valeriana officinalis, with heads of sweetly scented pink or white flowers.
• sputnikAny of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
• TrotskyA surname.
• tassA heap, pile.
• savinThe evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
• okaA former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.
• troikaA Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
• KashA male given name of modern usage.
• SmirnoffA serving of the Smirnoff brand of vodka.
• taranA species of roach (Rutilus heckelii), a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to the Black Sea basin: rivers Don, Kuban, Dnieper, Dniester, rarely Danube.
• RostovA city in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.
• PalatkaA city, the county seat of Putnam County, Florida.
• NoveAlexander Nove (né Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Новако́вский [Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky]; 1915–1994), non-Marxist socialist, Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow, and noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history; father of Perry Richard Nove and Charles Alexis Nove
• samoyedA member of the Samoyedic peoples of the Siberian Urals, who speak Samoyedic languages.
• FedorovA surname from Russian.
• NilaA vanara, brother of Nala and son of Agni in Ramayana.
• RogoffA surname from Russian.
• komiA member of an ethnic group chiefly consisting of Komi speakers and descendants of Komi speakers who don't speak the language.
• BashkirOf or pertaining to a certain Turkic ethnic group that lives mostly in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.
• AleutOf the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
• KassinA surname from Hebrew.
• KuznetsovA transliteration of the Russian surname Кузнецов (Kuznecov).
• buka traditional Korean drum
• zekA prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
• ChukchiRelating to or coming from Chukotka.
• AbramovichA surname.
• AlexandrovA transliteration of the Russian surname Александров (Aleksandrov).
• SokoloffA transliteration of the Russian surname Соколов (Sokolov).
• balalaikaA plucked stringed instrument with a triangular body, short neck and three strings, of Russian origin.
• SakharovA surname
• UnalaskaA volcanic island in the Aleutian Islands, an archipelago owned by the US state of Alaska.
• PskovAn oblast in northwestern Russia.
• kamasA member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia.
• KorolevA transliteration of the Russian surname Королёв (Koroljóv).
• peledThe Coregonus peled, a whitefish of the Salmonidae family, endemic to Northern Europe and Russia.
• MorozA surname from Ukrainian.
• KishinevThe capital city of Moldova, also known as Chisinau.
• UgricOf or pertaining to a group of languages that includes Hungarian, Khanty and Mansi.
• DubinskyA surname from Russian.
• ZariskiA surname.
• VasilievA transliteration of the Russian surname Васильев (Vasilʹjev).
• TokarevA Soviet service pistol, the TT-33 and TT-30
• IngushA member of a Nakh people of the northeastern Caucasus, now mostly Sunni Muslim and resident in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.
• TimoshenkoA surname from Russian
• VorontsovA transliteration of the Russian surname Воронцов (Voroncov).
• RodinaThe Soviet Union.
• SchuppA surname.
• yusEither of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.
• AnastasiA male given name from the Slavic languages.
• WinokurA surname from Russian.
• GoncharA transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Гончар (Hončar).
• SlavikA surname.
• arcadyArcadia, an ancient region of Greece with a tradition of rural, bucolic innocence.
• LevitskyA surname from Russian.
• LitvinovA surname from Russian
• krokodilThe drug desomorphine.
• NakhodkaA port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia.
• KorsakoffA surname from Russian.
• OstrovA surname
• KrasnowA surname from Russian.
• VyborgA city in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. In earlier times was part of Finland and Sweden, pop. 79,224 (as of 2002).
• MednickA surname from Russian.
• VladikavkazThe capital city of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia.
• NinotchkaA female given name from Russian.
• YakutOne of a Siberian people who speak a Turkic language, and live in the Lena river basin.
• AnosovA surname from Russian.
• PlekhanovA transliteration of the Russian surname Плеханов (Plexanov).
• PechoraA river in the Komi Republic and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
• IstominA surname from Russian.
• KoussevitzkyA surname from Russian.
• charoiteA rare mineral, ranging in color from a light lilac to a deep purple, found in Yakutia, Russia.
• SokolskyA surname from Russian.
• KrymCrimea: A geographic region and peninsula in Eastern Europe, jutting out into the Black Sea; de facto occupied and annexed in 2014 as a republic of Russia, but internationally recognized as an autonomous republic of Ukraine
• zelkovaA kind of tree in the elm family (genus Zelkova).
• skazkaA Russian fairy tale
• MenshevikA member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917.
• ChuvashiaA republic and federal subject of Russia, located in Eastern Europe. Capital: Cheboksary.
• ZuboffA surname from Russian.