The Russians are an historically great people, and have the second most advanced space program in the world today. Some book or the other, I can't remember the author or the title (it's been at least a decade), but it's one of the famous older sci-fi ones, actually had the Russians dominating space and being the major power in the solar system . I want to say it was one of those 1960s or 70s sort of sci-fi books... I think by one of the greats.

Bleh... sickness is killing my ability to think straight.

-Itharus

numerarius, you could look up the e.e.(doc) smith series the de-lamberts

that is the only one(s) I rememer at present

harpo

Usually google translate is off, no surprize. Perhaps JuleTron is correct about Akkan and Marza. The word Dunov sounds the most Slavic, though google's suggestion of "dune" does sound quite incongruous.

That doesn't mean that Dunov isn't a name. How many Russian people do you know?

I always thought that ship names like Dunov and Krosov were named after people, for example their chief designers or something.

The word Marza is Romanian for "Mars" as in the god of war (very appropriate name isn't it?).

I've also found out that there was a group of tribes in southern India named the Kol and that Hoshiko is a Japanese name that means "star".

Maybe I'm wrong though.