Dzhugashvili

Dzhugashvili or Jughashvili is a Georgian surname, a transliteration of ჯუღაშვილი. In Russian, it appears as Джугашвили.

Most famously, it is the birth surname of Joseph Stalin.

Other people with this surname include:

According to some versions this surname is not of Georgian but of Ossetian origin and comes from Ossetian surname Дзугаты (Дзугаев in Russian form, Romanization Dzugaev) to which Georgian suffix -shvili ("son of") was added.[1]

References

  1. ^ Цховребов Э. Правда о кремлёвском горце
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