Talk:Lyudmila Gurchenko

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What's the point of starting identical stubs? Perhaps the author's limited command of the language is to blame, but his stubs have that disadvantage that when I find the time to write the article in earnest, it will not be elgible for WP:DYK as too old. --Ghirla | talk 17:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC) https://www.unian.info/multimedia/photo/10002915-otkrytie-pamyatnika-lyudmile-gurchenko-v-harkove.html

She's not ethnically Ukrainian, unlike previously assumed in the article
This is why research is vital! Apparently she's actually of Russian ethnicity, her real surname was Gurchenkov, and both her parents were from Russia. It's not like it was a secret or anything, she spoke about it, but that is the point. Why was it assumed in the article she was a "Russian of Ukrainian ethnicity," when it's the other way round? Sources:, and I'm afraid to think how many other articles make the same mistake.

In Soviet times, many people changed their surnames, for various reasons. Be it having a noble surname (fear of oppression), being Jewish (fear of antisemitism), or simply trying to not stand out. Don't assume!