Given names of Soviet origin appeared in the early history of the Soviet Union,[2] coinciding with the period of intensive word formation, both being part of the so-called "revolutionary transformation of the society" with the corresponding fashion of neologisms and acronyms,[3] which Richard Stites characterized as a utopian vision of creating a new reality by means of verbal imagery.[2] They constituted a notable part of the new Soviet phraseology.
Such names may be primarily found in Russian persons,[4] and sometimes in Belarusians and Ukrainians,[5] as well as in other minorities of the former USSR (e.g. Tatar[6]).