Wow, you want to live in Ukraine!
My mother is from there.
Yuri is pretty common, although maybe not so much where my mum is from. She is from just by the border with Poland, and it used to in fact be in Poland, but they made it part of the USSR and turfed out all the Polish people.
My family was counted as ethnic Ukrainian, so they stayed, although my family did not identify with the Russians as much as maybe other Ukrainians.
My grandparents prefer to speak Polish to Russian.
Keeping the post on topic, I'm not sure it could work in Ukraine or Russia. If you did use it maybe you could call her by both names, or her friends could use her middle name and you could use
Yuri.
On the vaguely Slavic theme:
Yuri SaskiaYuri TatianaYuri Elena (my mum's name)
Yuri Kateryna/
Katerina (my mum's mn, she is westernised and so has two fn)
Yuri Natasa (my grandma's name)
Yuri MariyaYuri MilenaYuri MilaYuri EmiliyaYuri AnouskaYuri AnastasiaYuri KamilaYuri Irina
Others:
Yuri SeleneYuri OdetteYuri KatrineYuri ClaudineYuri CelesteYuri CassandraYuri AdelineYuri Lisette
Some of them might work flipped if you want
Yuri as a mn.
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This message was edited 7/23/2006, 4:08 PM