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Unless irregular, Russian surnames ending in '-n' or '-v' will only get the '-a' enclitic like Sotnikov-a and Sharapov-a. Russian surnames ending with a '-y' will get the 'aya' enclitic like Lipnitsk(y)-aya.
It has to do with Russian phonetics and what sounds euphonic or whatnot, I guess. There really isn't a reason why, it just is.
Polish surnames work the same way. I had an organic chemistry professor 2 years ago who's surname was Slowinska and there was another chemistry professor named Slowinski. I thought it was funny and coincidental how two people with similar surnames were working in the same department until I found out they were married and their surnames change according to gender. Pretty cool, I think.
Thank you, and yes, it's very cool. I have only been to Russia once and I was on tour with Coca Cola. Unfortunately, we would arrive in a city, sing, meet some dignitary's and leave. Our tour of Russia was much shorter than our usual 45 days due to lack of bookings so our managers didn't have us learn the language. In other countries we learned the basics however, in Russia we had a translator so, we never learned Russian.
I loved being there as I found the people we met to be very "Real" I don't know if that's the right word but, when you can't speak, due to the language barrier, you look into peoples eyes a lot more, at least I did.
I just loved how much I could feel from the people I met by the way they looked at me. In fact, it was almost a pain to hear what they were saying in English from our translator because, I could almost " Feel " what they saying in their eyes. Genuine and sincere.
I hope that made sense.