Kovalchuk

Kovalchuk (Russian and Ukrainian: Ковальчук), Kavalchuk (Belarusian: Кавальчук), Kowalczuk (Polish), also transliterated as a German adaptation Kowalchuk (in the North American diaspora), is a common East Slavic surname (one of the most popular in Ukraine).[1] The Kovalchuk name extends back to before 1500 AD in the Kievan Rus.

Koval (Коваль) literally translates as forge or blacksmith. The suffix -chuk denoted either a son of, or an apprentice to a blacksmith. It is somewhat similar in commonality to English surname Smith. It is also cognate with very popular Polish surnames Kowalczyk and Kowalski.

In East Slavic Languages, the correct pronunciation would be ko-vahl-CHOOK, but for those living in the West, for example Ukrainian Canadians, the pronunciation ko-WAL-chuk is more common.

People
gollark: Given the US government's ability to mess up everything it touches, I don't think government-paid government-run healthcare would be the best of ideas. But the insurance system is also quite terrible. There's probably an alternative possibly-better way.
gollark: You can't easily go around controlling spread neatly to just people who accept a 0.5% or whatever risk of death (which is still quite bad).
gollark: That doesn't, in itself, make it bad. It's bad because you're, well, killing someone.
gollark: It's better than using guesswork to decide.
gollark: We obviously can't be *sure*, but I am sure they have better models than "draw straight line on graph, see where it ends up a bit later".

References
  1. Популярні призвища та імена України
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