Hello All! Roger, thank you for Welcome! I'd like to clarify some words. I realized, that I've misspelled the word "descendenTs" (or "descendants")in my first post... Yes, talent, we can't hide it... I corected it already. The only exscuse I could come up with, that it's medicalized (e.g. cervicalis descendens) due to my profession. But what for? Mistake is a mistake.
The other russian person, that you mentioned, named "Vika",
which is a short form of Viktoria, female analog of name Viktor.
As you probably know, that in Russian language, being mostly phonetic, and based on Greek alphabet, we have only one letter-"c" for [s] sound (which is enough we think).
And we have only one letter-"k" for [k] sound.So, naturally we tend to spell our names in English accordingly. By the way, we also have only one letter-"f" for [f] sound, and the only one single letter for [ch] sound in Russian, and no [w] sound, and no articles either(or neither?),
etc, etc.
Almost forgot...There is a word "redut" in Russian(transliterated), pronounced [re-'doo-t]. Meaning military defensive structure. It's borrowed, you know from where.


Viktor V. Trukov

Viktor V. Trukov