Lovely Lev and his name
We all know the one and only Lev and his upbringing with a domestic cat for a step mother (and a step brother I found out recently) and his journey from russia to japan and various zoos within japan <3
It was at Saitama Children's Zoo where he got his name Lev, which means lion in Russian. His other proposed names were Plushenko (perhaps after Evgeni Plushenko, the russian figure skater and coach), Vodka, Shilo, Borscht and Lev.
Saitama Children's Zoo Facebook page had some posts about this dated September 3, 2016 (so Lev had no given name since June?). I discovered something neat on that post.
Lev had another proposed name: モル or Moru/Mole. I am unsure if this refers to the scientific mole, the animal mole, or the drink mors.
There was a total of 22 votes (from most votes to least votes)
Lev: 7
Shilo: 6
Mole(?): 5
Vodka: 2
Plushenko: 2
Borscht: 0
Here are the photos on that post!


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I'm glad Lev won heeeeee!
I didn't know about Mol's name either :) They never told us about it! Very interesting! Thank you for writing about it!!!
Grusha (グルーシャ) the Pallas's cat
Vodka's ♂ and Shar's ♀ son
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We missed such a chance😂
Mor — could it be More (the sea)?
Vodka 😁 Good Lord. Though “vodka” in Japanese sounds like “uokka” or something along those lines. Still, not great. Lev, Lyovushka—that’s an excellent name.
anna_yu, Then it would be written as モレ (more). And モル is read as “moru.”
Knowing Lev's moves, the name Shilo would be fitting—we call people who don't stay in one place for long "restless bottoms" :)
anna_yu, Iriska is even better. She would make a (hussars! Silence!) Ball-Roller 😹
Pavel Burov, Then all the children would be Vodkovnas and Vodkoviches 😁 No, it’s a good thing Lev is still Lev.