Just my luck. It's not enough that I have to deal with countless Latin-alphabet versions of Smolenyak. Now I get to deal with all the Cyrillic variations!
I entered "Smolenyak" in Steve Morse's cool tool for Transliterating English to Russian and here's what I get:
Смолэняк, Змолэняк, Смоленяк, Змоленяк
As anyone with Eastern European roots knows, it's a good idea to be able to recognize your name when it's written in Cyrillic. But frankly, it's fun to do this with any name. Here, for instance, is the oh-so-unRussian name of Nelligan:
Нэлйган, Нелйган, Нэлиган, Нелиган, Нэлйгэн, Нелйгэн, Нэлигэн, Нелигэн