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Soviet Soldiers

Soviets are one of the most common nationalities in Xenonauts, yet their names and surnames are drawn from a surprisingly small list (38 male and 17 female names). They also seem to ignore any ethnical background besided Russian and Ukranian.
This mod replaces the names and surnames of male and female Soviet soldiers, with names that reflect the ethnical diversity of the Soviet Union in 1979.

Features:
- 106 male first names
- 80 female first names
- 125 surnames
- The following ethnical backgrounds for names are in this mod:
- Russian (extended from original)
- Ukranian (extended from original)
- Belarussian (new or extended)
- Uzbek (new)
- Kazakh (new)
- Tajik (new)
- Azeri (new)
- Armenian (new)
- Moldovan (new)
- Georgian (new)
- Lithuanian (new)
- Latvian (new)
- Estonian (new)
- Tatar (new)
- Kyrgyz (new)
- Turkmen (new)
- Chechen (new)

- Retains experience and regiment info.

Notes:

The different ethnic backgrounds don't have the same amount of names, but are instead loosely based on the percentage of population of their socialist republic in relation to the total of the USSR. For example, there are more or less 60 russian names and only 2 Lithuanian ones.

Since it's impossible to link first names to surnames, most of the times you'll see soldiers with a mix of ethnicities in their first and surname. Example: Timur Kravchenko, Stanislav Sepp, Umida Kozlova, Aleksandra Harutyunyan.

Some ethnicities share names (Tajiks, Uzbeks and Kazakhs or Russians, Ukranians and Belarussians) so i tried to take that into account when adding names.

Finally, it's obvious I'm not from these countries and my source for the names was the internet, so I am sure there's bound to be horrible spelling mistakes or names that are very uncommon. This is probably the case with female surnames where i transformed the male surnames into their female forms, but I don't know exactly what the rules are. Leave feedback if you find something wrong and I'll correct it accordingly.

UPDATE v1.1:

- Added a couple of Chechen names
- Removed some names that were diminutives of other names and corrected some female surnames. Thanks to Tea Time for this tweak.