Russian short names

[mixturaverborum.livejournal.com]

Why the short name of Vladimir is Vova/Volodia?
What is derivation rule?

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Comments

[b0bb.livejournal.com]

Подписываюсь под каждым словом.
Put my signature under every word.

Oh, what the heck, let me repeat:

"Please keep in mind that you won't learn Russian without using it. However, people here who have just started learning Russian will be motivated by real conversation rather than dull word-to-word translation"

[inuliss.livejournal.com]

:)

PS.конечно, "will be" and capital RRR:)