traditionally, full russian name consists of a person name ( – given name or first name), patronym ( – father's name as middle name) and a family name ( – surname or last name). all of these words have the same grammatical gender as biological one. slavic, as well as greek, roman, jewish and other person names of european or semitic origin loaned centuries ago, have gender-specific versions of respective patronyms. to produce a patronym, suffixes and are used with final vowel addition or modification: for hard consonant ( ⇐ son/daughter of ), for ( ⇐ ), and for other cases ( ⇐ , ⇐ ). some person names also have versions for both males and females ( – – ).