The Russian equivalent for William is Вильям (Vilyam).
The Russian immigrants spoke Russian.
The proper adjective for Russian is "Russian."
The Russian word for "Russian" is русский, pronounced ROOS-ski. If you want to write it in English, you can write it as russky.
In Russian, 'Russian' is pronounced as 'русский' (ruskiy).
In Russian, "no" is written as "нет".
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William Guzik was born on January 10, 1894, in Russian Empire.
They were as Russian as David Beckham, Prince William and red telephone boxes. In short, they were English.
William Herrick has written: 'Catalogue of the Russian rural stamps' -- subject(s): Postage stamps
William Sabbot was born on February 12, 1890, in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine].
William S. Hamilton has written: 'Notes from Old Nanking, 1947-1949' 'Introduction to Russian phonology and word structure' -- subject(s): Morphophonemics, Phonology, Russian language, Word formation
William Tooke has written: 'View of the Russian Empire, during the reign of Catharine the Second, and to the close of the eighteenth century'
William Kozlov was born on November 3, 1929, in Bologoye, Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
William Monteith has written: 'Notes on Georgia and the new Russian conquest beyond the Caucasus' -- subject(s): Boundaries, Description and travel
William Fetler has written: 'How I discovered modernism among American Baptists, and why I founded the Russian Missionary Society' 'The stundist in Siberian exile and other poems'
I've always had the same question too. It does seem rather strange doesn't it? Now I don't know if this correct but I thought I'd share something I'd discovered as an American in Moscow, Russia.Sometimes my lower intermediate level Russian students have spelling mix-ups when spelling English words on paper. In the Russian and English alphabet there are many letters that resemble one another but take on completely different sounds.I found that when you spell "William" shortened to "Will" in Russian) since it's not a name that rolls of the tongue so easily in the Russian language) Using the Russian alphabet, the "W" is replaced by a "B". In the Russian alphabet and the Russian "B" is closest to the English "W" sound.So maybe there was a spelling mix-up that led to the nickname for Will or William to become what we pronounce as "Bill" this way. After all it is a common name in English speaking part of Europe and they are neighboring countries.
William Shepherd, of the US was the first to enter the station, followed by two Russian crew members.