Wow, I REALLY hope that poor kid was named that by his parents because it means something else in Russian. Not that it would make it any better of a name, but it would at least decrease the level of cringe and mean that they didn't name him that in English. Pull the poor kid aside and ask him to pick a nickname- if he's lucky, it'll stick until he can change his name legally- which I have to assume he can't do yet, because I can't think of any reason someone would keep that name if they spend the majority of their time in largely English speaking countries. Hell, I'd even try to contact his parents about it in your shoes, especially if he's a young child. I'd give a polite but vicious verbal lashing for giving their kid that name because, seriously, what the **** were they thinking? Did they give his mom painkillers then ask her to name him? Were his parents BOTH drugged at the time? Were they high when it was time to name him? Hell, did one of them win a bet with picking his name as a wager, and choose that for a laugh and forget that the poor kid would have to carry that until it got changed?