Proper noun
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Степан (Stepán).
A surname from Czech.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgStepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn. Leo Tolstoy
And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain. Leo Tolstoy
"A Stepan laboratory in Maywood, N.J., is the nation's only legal commercial importer of coca leaves, which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Source: Internet
In the late 1950s, KGB assassin Bohdan Stashynsky killed Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera with a spray gun that fired a jet of poison gas from a crushed cyanide ampule, making their deaths look like heart attacks. Source: Internet
Although she divorced Dostoyevsky's friend Stepan Yanovsky, she would not live with him. Source: Internet
Political-spectrum-based forecasts As shown by Russian political scientist Stepan S. Sulakshin, citation political spectra can be used as a forecasting tool. Source: Internet