What Has Changed? In the early 2000s, tens of thousands of Kyrgyz changed their last names, removing the Russian suffixes of -ov/-ev and -ova/eva for men and women, respectively, in favor or the ...
Russian surnames depended on the head of the family (Fëdor-Fëdorov), and the Soviets insisted on the ‘unification of nationalities and languages’, as the Kazakh journalist Gaziza Uzak ...