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So we're back to our hot female spy. Her full name is Ekaterina Ivanovna Smirnova. Her first name is obvious- the Russian form of Katherine. But what about the other two:
* Ivanovna means "daughter of Ivan". The male version is "Ivanovich"- "son of Ivan". The technical term is [[
* Smirnova is the feminine form of Smirnov, a very common Russian surname. Women (often) add an "a" to the surname.
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** Which means there's a chance that [[Alias (TV series)|Irina Derevko]] is actually not a Russian in ethnic origin, but Ukrainian.
*** Not necessary, as Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians are, regardless of what [[Patriotic Fervor|nationalists on all sides]] would tell you, still very much parts of a same ethnicity, or at least not consider each other ''foreign'' enough, so the surname ethnicity doesn't really reflect a ''person'''s ethnicity in any way.
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* Aleksandr/Alexander (Alex)
** The basic diminutive for this name is "Sasha". Has an equally popular female version - "Aleksandra" which diminutes to "Sasha" as well. Sometimes gets shortened to "Alex" just as "Aleksey" above.
*** The gender of [[Team Fortress 2
*** Thus is explained the stage name of welsh trance producer Alexander Coe, DJ Sasha.
** Sasha Alexander, from ''[[
** Another diminutive is "Shura" or "Shurik". The latter is male-only and is also a popular Soviet comical stock character - an awkward and clumsy Soviet student, reeking of geekiness and ''intelligentsya''.
** "Alik" is another popular nickname for Aleksandr, and also serves as a nickname for other, rarer names that start with "Al-" (including foreign names such as Albert).
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