Ivanov family
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The Ivanov family is a premade family that appears in The Sims 3. They live in Riverview, at 13 Lost Willow Road. Rayna Kaminski's daughter, Nadine Ivanov, has recently married and had two children, and her mother has moved in with the young family. They are a very tight-knit family, except that Rayna dislikes her son-in-law, Yuri Ivanov. They are all musical, except for Tatiana Ivanov. Their names suggest an Eastern-European background, possibly Polish.
Onatomology
Ivanov - Ivanov is a Russian and Bulgarian surname meaning "Son of Ivan".
Kaminski - Kaminski is a Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Jewish surname, a name for someone who came from the town Kamien. Kamien is derived from the Slavic word "kamiñ", meaning "stone".
Yuri Ivanov - Yuri is a variant transciprtion of the name "Yuriy", which is the Ukrainian and Russian form of the name "George".
Nadine Ivanov - Nadine is a French form of Nadya, which is a diminutive of the Russian name "Nadezhda", meaning "hope".
Tatiana Ivanov - Tatiana is a Slavic name, the feminine form of the name "Tatianus", of unknown meaning.
Dimitri Ivanov - Dimitri goes back to a Greek name, "Demetrius", derived from the Greek goddess "Demeter", which means "earth mother".
Rayna Kaminski - Rayna is a Bulgarian form of the Late Latin name "Regina", which means "queen".
The family's first names seem to be a mixture of European names, not related to any specific culture or country.