Why am I writing this? - You may ask. I am writing this to shed some light on the origins and commonality of my name for non-russian speakers / foreigners. But first, let me introduce my background. I am Ramil Nassyrov ("Рамиль Насыров"), a Russian Java Developer with 5+ years of experience in my field. I graduated from Omsk National Technical University in 2017 and have been working as a developer since that year. "Ramil Nassyrov" (Рамиль Насыров) is a very common name in Russian Federation and in the former Soviet Union countries. However, most of the people with this name don't have accounts in English. Instead, they typically use Russian. And if you don't know, Russian language uses cyrillic alphabet unlike English, which uses latin alphabet. And cyrillic alphabet is very different from the latin alphabet. The letters and sounds are quite different. Below, you can see the cyrillic alphabet and the latin alphabet below it. English Alphabet The russian tra...