Learning new names is always interesting. I'm currently in the Sierra Coffee shop; the barista's name is Lurlán. Among our teachers, all female, are the following names: Kenzhé, Altynái, Saikál, Saníra, Zakhída and Asél. Those are all Kyrgyz names. And of course there are plenty of standard Russian names: Yekaterina, Larisa, Maksim, Mikheil, and this morning's taxi driver Vladimir Yevgenivech. You'll laugh, but the Russian names are easy for me, and the Kyrgyz ones are still challenging.