Comment on Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)parentComments−justsomehnguy2yPetrov/Petroff is a (a very common) surname/lastname in Russian, but never a firstname.-ko is a suffix denoting a lastname of Ukrainian origin though those were spread around even in Russian Empire.There are a lot of people with Zayilenko surname in Russia now and Zalenko and Zelenko is still one in Ukraine now.Given the Wikipedia article on him there is a chance it's just a corruption and he was called Petro Zelenko[0] Petrov "Petro" Zailenko, a.k.a. Pitro Zalenko
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Petrov/Petroff is a (a very common) surname/lastname in Russian, but never a firstname.
-ko is a suffix denoting a lastname of Ukrainian origin though those were spread around even in Russian Empire.
There are a lot of people with Zayilenko surname in Russia now and Zalenko and Zelenko is still one in Ukraine now.
Given the Wikipedia article on him there is a chance it's just a corruption and he was called Petro Zelenko
[0] Petrov "Petro" Zailenko, a.k.a. Pitro Zalenko