Word origins

• SokolovA surname from Russian
• garnetsAn old Russian dry measure, approximately 3.28 litres.
• RogoffA surname from Russian.
• VitaliA surname.
• KhodorkovskyA transliteration of the Russian surname Ходорко́вский (Xodorkóvskij).
• aulA village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
• 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.
• TomskA city, the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast, Russia.
• NatalyaA female given name from Russian.
• KuraA river in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, flowing into the Caspian Sea.
• OmskA city, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast, Russia, the seventh-largest in the country by population.
• KurA mountain or mountains, usually identified as the Zagros mountains to the east of Sumer.
• pavlovaA meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream.
• commissarAn official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
• AleutOf the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
• YevgenyA transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij).
• PortnoyA surname.
• IngushetiaA republic and federal subject of Russia in the Caucasus. Capital: Magas.
• yurtA large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).
• DagestanA republic and federal subject of Russia, located in the Caucasus region. Capital: Makhachkala.
• MagadanAn oblast and federal subject in far eastern Russia.
• LebedevA transliteration of the Russian surname Лебедев (Lebedev).
• presidiumA permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess.
• KhabarovskA krai and federal subject of Russia, in the Russian Far East.
• smetanaA form of soured cream or crème fraîche from Central and Eastern Europe.
• KassinA surname from Hebrew.
• GomelThe second-largest city of Belarus.
• KuznetsovA transliteration of the Russian surname Кузнецов (Kuznecov).
• DubnaA city in Moscow Oblast, Russia.
• agitpropPolitical propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• MunaA river in Russia
• samizdatThe secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.
• KrasnodarA krai and federal subject of Russia, unofficially called Kuban.
• karyotypeThe observed characteristics (number, type, shape, etc) of the chromosomes of an individual or species.
• UstinovA surname from Russian.
• sarmaA dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage).
• DostoyevskyA transliteration of the Russian surname Достое́вский (Dostojévskij).
• ChelyabinskAn oblast of Russia, near the Ural Mountains.
• zheThe letter Ж, ж.
• perestroikaA program of political and economic reform carried out in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev.
• SochiA city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
• blinTo cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
• VolkovA surname from Russian.
• buka traditional Korean drum
• AndreevA transliteration of the Russian surname Андреев (Andrejev).
• zekA prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
• VoronezhAn oblast and federal subject of Russia.
• VyacheslavA transliteration of the Russian male given name Вячесла́в (Vjačesláv).
• DecembristA participant in, or sympathizer with, the Decembrist revolt.
• kashaA porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.
• OrlovA surname from Russian.
• KalashnikovA particular model of Russian assault rifle.
• systemaA Russian martial art, first appearing in the 1990s, involving a wide variety of fighting styles, including hand-to-hand combat, grappling, knife-fighting and firearms (with the specific elements usually dictated by the individual school).
• TuvaA republic and federal subject of Russia, located in southern Siberia.
• balaklavaA former city in Crimea, now part of city of Sevastopol
• VesnaA mythological female character associated with youth and springtime in early Slavic mythology.
• BrezhnevA transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев (Bréžnev); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Leonid Brezhnev.
• ChukchiRelating to or coming from Chukotka.
• IlyichA surname from Russian
• AbramovichA surname.
• GrigoryA transliteration of the Russian male given name Григо́рий (Grigórij), equivalent to Gregory.
• fitaThe obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѳ, ѳ formerly used in Russian to write proper names and loanwords derived from or via Greek.
• AleksandraA transliteration of the Pannonian Rusyn or Russian female given name Александра (Aleksandra)
• prospektIn Russia, a broad, multilane and very long straight street in urban areas, which serves as an arterial road.
• ByelorussiaBelarus
• YaroslavlAn oblast and federal subject of Russia.
• kraiA region or province in Russia.
• SmolenskAn oblast of Russia.
• MakarovA Soviet service pistol, the PM
• SvetaA diminutive of the female given name Svetlana, from Russian
• AlexandrovA transliteration of the Russian surname Александров (Aleksandrov).
• SukhoiA Russian aircraft manufacturer.
• burkaA dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name), traditionally worn by men of the Caucasus region.
• SokoloffA transliteration of the Russian surname Соколов (Sokolov).
• ArkhangelskAn oblast and federal subject in northwestern Russia.
• samovarA metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.
• limanA wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers, where flow is constrained by a bar of sediments (created by either the current of a sea or a sediment-saturated river), especially in the Black Sea region.
• YakutskThe capital city of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia
• BorisovA transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Борисов (Borisov).
• barmyContaining, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”).
• VitebskA city in Belarus.
• rotanA long rattan cane used for corporal punishment.
• balalaikaA plucked stringed instrument with a triangular body, short neck and three strings, of Russian origin.
• MishkinA surname from Russian.
• kalanThe sea otter.
• SakharovA surname
• TverAn oblast of Russia.
• AbkhazAbkhazian: of or pertaining to Abkhazia, the Abkhazian people, or their language.
• PeterburgSynonym of Saint Petersburg: a federal city of Russia.
• UnalaskaA volcanic island in the Aleutian Islands, an archipelago owned by the US state of Alaska.
• PskovAn oblast in northwestern Russia.
• carboliteA phenol formaldehyde resin analogous to Bakelite used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
• YekaterinburgA city, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, the fifth-largest in the country by population.
• astrakhanClosely-curled black or grey fleece of very young karakul lambs from Astrakhan.
• kamasA member of a people who live in the northwest of Siberia.
• NorilskA city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, second largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
• kurganA prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
• PetrogradFormer name of Saint Petersburg, from 1914 (when Russia entered World War I) to 1924 (when Lenin died), a major city in Russia.
• MedvedevA transliteration of the Russian surname Медве́дев (Medvédev).