Oh that's interesting. Explains the other common diminutive of Vladimir - Volody...

		romanhn 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more Oh that's interesting. Explains the other common diminutive of Vladimir - Volodya. And yeah, Vlad is short for Vladislav. My favorite set of Russian diminutives that makes zero logical sense to a non-native is: Alexander (formal) = Sasha (informal) = Shura/Shurik (very informal).

Alexander => Alexasha => Sasha

And then with suffix -urik: Sashurik => Shurik