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Need some feedback direction on names/locations! Makaruk, Savchuk, Lenz, Fenske / Cherdia, Drazna [13]
@Pleuvoir
When going from Russian or Ukrainian to English the only way you get a Charles is if you work with a Karl to begin with. Maybe some friendly person, perhaps a German, heard your Grandpa say in a heavily accented way that he is Kiril, and was asked to spell it, and that person decided - "oh this is like German Karl, so then you are a Charles".
The reason I spelled Makaryuk as I did was just through muscle memory, because I was trying to spell the letter Ю using Latin letters, which is"yu". That is, in Russian it would be spelled Макарюк.
Finally, don't be misled by Russian Orthodox vs Ukrainian Orthodox, etc. There was no Ukrainian Orthodox Church until 2018. It was quite a big deal actually, covered all over the news. The Greek Catholics existed, and in large numbers, but mostly in a part which did not yet belong to Russia then. So any Orthodox person from the former Soviet Union with the exception of Georgia (which has its own ancient church) and Armenia (different type of Orthodox) would be Russian Orthodox.