Topelson is born to a Russian father and a Polish mother.

The son of a French mother and a Russian father, he left Paris with his family as an infant.

Supposedly she was the daughter of a Russian father and a Norwegian mother.

Olonkin was the only son among twelve children of a Norwegian mother and a Russian father.

He could not possibly have a Russian father.

Her Russian father skipped out when she was tiny.

The term can also refer to somomeone with a Brazilian mother and Russian father, or vice versa.

He is the son of a Russian immigrant father and a mother of Romanian descent.

The study also found that Russian fathers had far less contact with their children than those in any other country.

Now and then, there is a news report about aberrant behavior, like the Russian father who killed his daughter.