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    1 year ago

    Edit: Was not aware of the Torovoltos copypasta when I wrote the below.

    That sounds more Greek than Russian.

    “Lën Nikolaevitch Torpravi(tel)sky” would be a Russified calque of Torvalds’ name, although that has at least a couple of issues with it. (1: The first word is literally “Linen”. Same root, but no personal name developed from that root in Russian that I can see. 2: No-one has either surname.)