Talk:Dmitry Bogrov

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People, I think we need clearance with the name spelling. If we transliterate the original one - it should be exactly as I did it in the text (Dmitriy Bogrov) - as I'm a native speaker. While the ending of Dmitry is I guess phonetically ambiguous. Otherwise, somebody should explain why Dmitry is a common English spelling of a Russian name. Best wishes, AlexPU

Hi, I changed the spelling to what seems to me more a more common version of the Russian name "Dmitriy". There is not much material on Bogrov in English, so I checked how the names of more famous Russian Dmitriys are spelled. Namely Tsarevich Dmitry, Dmitry Donskoi, Dmitry Pozharsky and Dmitry Shostakovich. All except the last one are overwhelmingly spelled as Dmitry, Shostakovich is spelled Dmitri in WP but Britannica also calls him Dmitry. Dmitriy is not widely used, hence I changed the name here. However, I don't feel strongly about this (unlike Kiev/Kyiv name where the English usage preference is clear), so I don't mind if the name is changed back. As for his last name, it was my mistake, sorry. I new him as Bagrov but I checked more sources and, while Bagrov is often used , it seems to be a common error and Bogrov is correct. I really appreciate your extensive contributions to Wikipedia. Hope you don't mind my editing of the articles in the areas of common interest. Regards, Irpen 15:29, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)