Lida Area Men who failed to report for Military Duty

The lists were transcribed by Irene Newhouse and Edward Rosenbaum.  Names were spelled as creatively in Cyrillic as they are now, in spite of the fact that the Cyrillic system of writing is much more phonetic than the English.  Because of English's baroque spelling methods, a strict transliteration from Russian can look odd.  So SAY the names to yourself as you go along.

Moreover, if you have 'w' in your name now, be aware that it's pronounced like 'v' in Polish.  This is relevant because between the World Wars, the Lida area was part of Poland, and if your name has a w in it now, it derived it from the Polish spelling, as w is not used to transcribe Russian.  Also, 'c' is pronounced like 'ts' in Polish.  If your name now has 'cki' or 'cky' in it, chances are excellent that it was originally pronounced 'tsky'.  As far as I know, only English is [whatever] enough to use 'ck' for the same sound as 'k' - most other languages are more consistent about the 'one letter, one sound' rule.   As English does not distinguish between long i & the sound made by y, that's another set of letters often interchanged.  Russian is generally transcribed without the use of y, but to accomdate long-held prejudices, we are using y in our transcriptions.

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