Eastern Slavic naming customs
![An example of an ID document of a citizen of Russia. The lower page includes the lines: Фамилия (](/Images/godic/202412/18/Pasport_RF5309.jpg")
![Marina Tsvetaeva, a Russian poet. The name](/Images/godic/202412/18/Tsvetaeva5309.jpg")
![Руслан (Ruslan), a character in Alexander Pushkin's poem Ruslan and Ludmila. The short form for Руслан (Ruslan) is Руся (Rusya).](/Images/godic/202412/18/Nikolay_Ge_0405309.jpg")
![Николай II (Nicholas II), the last Russian emperor. In private communication, his wife called him in the German manner,](/Images/godic/202412/18/Mikola_II5309.jpg")
Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional ways of determining a person's name in countries influenced by East Slavic linguistic tradition, mainly Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, some Southern Slavic languages like in Macedonia and Bulgaria, and the non-Slavic Kazakhstan.