I like your list!
Mine-girls:
Anastasiya: I only like the shorter versions of this, like
Nastasya,
StaciaArisha: I've never seen this name before, it's kind of nice
Asya [NN for
Anastasiya]: nice short form
Faina: don't like it so much
Kira: I forgot this one, I love it!
Lidiya: It's nice
Marina: I don't like Mary-names so no on this one
Masha: Same
Milena: It looks like a boy's name almost
Misha [girl only]: I would like it if it wasn't getting so popular
Nadenka [NN for
Nadya]: I like
Nadya better
Nadya: Not my favourite but it's ok
Tatiana: It's overly popular
Guys:
Aleksei: Great name, with nn Alek
Arseni: reminds me of
Arsenio HallArtur: Like the English version better
Benedikt:
My uncle is named this
Evgeni: I've never seen this one either. Interesting.
Grigoriy: Bad association
Grisha: gristle
Luka: Like it
Maksim:
Max names are too popular
Matvei: Hmm this one is nice
Milan: Ok
Pasha: Don't like the P sound
Roman: Ok
Sasha: seems like more of a girl's name to me
Sergei: way too popular
Vilen: villain
Yuri: nms