Trivia
Just as Maxim Kammerer, Rudolf Sikorski was originally given a Russian name by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Pavel Grigorievitch (Павел Григорьевич). However, the Soviet censors didn't allow it, so the authors had to find a more "Germanic" one for him. Sikorski is in fact a Slavic (mainly Polish) name and was probably chosen to show incompetence of censors, especially considering that this name may be a hidden allusion to Igor Sikorsky, a Russian aircraft inventor who emigrated to the United States after the October Revolution of 1917 and designed the world's first helicopted there in 1939.
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