I don’t mean a direct translation, but rather a common and/or “stereotypical” last name that is generally used as the equivalent of “Smith” in English.
I don’t mean a direct translation, but rather a common and/or “stereotypical” last name that is generally used as the equivalent of “Smith” in English.
‘Kuznets’ means smith too. The difference is that kuznets is borrowed from Church Slavonic, while koval is authentically East Slavic.