By what name is Iosif Vissarionovich Izhugashvili better known?
Early life of Joseph Stalin Georgian, he also a subject of the Russian Empire, so also had a Russified version of his name: Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (). Stalin's surname () is transliterated as according to the official romanization system of the Georgian government. An alternative transliteration is , per the ISO standard (9984:1996). His name was Russified to "", which is in turn transliterated into English as and . "Besarionis dze" means "son of Besarion," and was Russified to "Vissarionovich" ("son of Vissarion", the Russian version of "Besarion"). There are several etymologies of the () root. In one version, the name derives from the village
Iosif Vulcan instead drawing its essence from authentic, realist folk roots. The Iosif Vulcan Memorial Museum is located in Oradea on a street that bears his name. Inaugurated in 1965 in the house that he inhabited from 1897 until 1907, it is furnished with objects that belonged to him. The same city hosts the Iosif Vulcan National College, a secondary school that used his name from 1920 to 1990 and again since 1999. Bistrița, Cluj-Napoca, Curtici, Salonta, Satu Mare, Săcueni, Timișoara and Valea lui Mihai also have streets named after him. Iosif Vulcan Iosif Vulcan (March 31, 1841 – September 8, 1907)