Mikitenko, Anna Seregeevna, Agricultural Worker

[Tommy]

Only reason i suggested towards Moldova was one of the ukaz periods only had awards to Moldovans and all the others seemed to line up too. Everyone loves a rough guess as long as nothing's riding on it.

Anyway, she was a bloody hard worker whoever she was and wherever she was from!

[CtahhR]

That is true. Very often if there is a "general" overview or a pinpointing overview we would always like it to be the area focused.

Often the apple doesn't fall far from the tree so it is likely to have come from close to where it was sourced.

I have been lucky in collecting in mainly acquiring "minority" names and these minorities can most usually be assumed to be from a particular geographic region. It gets particularly more difficult with Russian, Ukrainian and Belarussian names.

Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov could have been from anywhere in the entire USSR. A tribal name is and was less likely to be widespread.