Funnily enough, this looks like the same surname with a Persian root for “stone carver” and Armenian and Russian surname suffixes. Given Persian origins, one ca

Funnily enough, this looks like the same surname with a Persian root for “stone carver” and Armenian and Russian surname suffixes. Given Persian origins, one can speculate that it was russified rather than armenified. So Kardashev’s ancestors might be Kardashians!