Does Jarkov mean Ярков or Жарков?
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And where did you see it? – Dmitry Alexandrov Feb 04 '15 at 19:42
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@Dmitry Alexandrov In Wikipedia in articles related to WWII, as a placename – Anixx Feb 05 '15 at 02:22
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4Cannot google it. Are you sure that it was English Wikipedia? If Spanish, then that is Харьков. – Dmitry Alexandrov Feb 05 '15 at 02:36
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@Dmitry Alexandrov yes, its english one – Anixx Feb 05 '15 at 02:54
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3Could you please provide a link to the original article? It may help research. – Stefan van den Akker Feb 06 '15 at 14:21
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Please add some additional context to your question - in what exactly context you've met this name and why exactly it's difficult to figure out what's the right answer. – shabunc Jul 06 '19 at 11:06
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1@shabunc c'mon this is a question from 2015 do you think it warrants being put on hold after all these years during which it wasn't put on hold? – Баян Купи-ка Jul 06 '19 at 11:33
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Probably Жарков, being the more common surname; "French" transliteration was used in Soviet and Russian travel passports until about the late 90s. If, however, the presumed language of the transliteration is a Nordic one, or Italian, or any other one where j is iotic and v is not [f], then Ярков is more likely.
Nikolay Ershov
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Transliteration into Latin characters - for passports of the Russian Federation (since 16.03.2010)
Жарков - ZHARKOV
Ярков - IARKOV
Джарков - DZHARKOV
Misa
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- I think in case of the mammoth he (discoverer) was Ярков.
But the French Wikipedia stands for Zharkov (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarkov_(mammouth) )
- Excuse me, my first hypotesis is wrong. Here is the link (https://kocmi.ru/mamont-zharkova.html) to the russian source with the correct discoverer's surname (so it is Жарков).
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