A person's surname can tell a lot about who his ancestors were. It did not always happen that the relatives were all nobles and "blue blood". Many people have been referring to the Urals and Siberia for centuries to settle these vast lands. Hard work and physical punishment could not affect their names and nicknames. To the Urals and Siberia Historically, the Trans-Urals was settled mainly by convicts and exiles, Old Believers, dissenters, as well as Cossacks and peasants who went to the...

A person's surname can tell a lot about who his ancestors were. It did not always happen that the relatives were all nobles and "blue blood". Many people have been referring to the Urals and Siberia for centuries to settle these vast lands. Hard work and physical punishment could not affect their names and nicknames. To the Urals and Siberia Historically, the Trans-Urals was settled mainly by convicts and exiles, Old Believers, dissenters, as well as Cossacks and peasants who went to the...