Isaac Asimov

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According to Wikipedia, Russian author and scientist Isaac Asimov was originally known as Исаак Озимов [Isaak Ozimov], but his name is now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов [Ajzjek Azimov]. That seems very strange to me. Was this just done to reflect the English pronunciation? Is that commonplace in Russia? The Russian Wikipedia article on Asimov uses the latter name, and seems to indicate (although I cannot read Russian) that he was born with a the former name.