shtuchka + ink = tushkanchik
(shtuchka - little thing; ink -
Russ., Inca, a member of any of the dominant groups of South American
Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to Spanich
conquest; tushkanchik
- jerboa)
shtuchka + inok/koni/Koni/kino = tuchka +
shinok (inok - monk; koni - horses; Koni - A. F. Koni, 1844-1927, the famous lawyer and author,
memoirist; kino - cinematography; tuchka - little cloud; shinok -
tavern)
shtuchka is a diminutive of shtuka (thing;
trick; etc.) shtuka = shutka (joke)
sobaka = Sobak/skoba + a
(sobaka - dog; Sobak -
Fima Sobak, in "The 12 Chairs" the best friend of Ellochka the Cannibal; skoba - cramp-iron)
Sobak rhymes with Tobak (Ivan G. Tobak, Cordula's first
husband). Sobak + T = Tobak + S = St Koba (Koba -
Stalin's nickname, after a character in Kazbeghi's novel The
Patricide; in Ada, 1.2, there is Colonel St Alin, a
scoundrel)
Btw., Ilf and Petrov are the authors of Odnoetazhnaya
Amerika (One Storey America, 1937).
Alexey Sklyarenko