User:Sanych

The name "Sanych" has nothing to do with New York or its common initials "NY".

Actually, it is a phonetic abbreviation of Russian "Aleksandrovich" (quite a mouthful, heh?), which means "son of Aleksandr". So, yes, my father's name is Alexandr or, as Russians write, "Александр", and this makes me "Александрович" - Alexksandrovich.

If my first name was Aleksandr, then I would be called "Aleksandr Aleksandrovich" - or "San Sanych" for short. That would have been cool!!!

Actually, Alexander is a very cool name in Russian. It has more short forms of the name than any other Russian name. If you are Aleksandr, you can also be called Sasha, Shura, Sanya, etc.