Russian pronunciation of "h" is much harder than the English one. To emphasis it, they add the "k" to it. Unfortunately, what it does is further confuse everyone, because they think that the H is there to emphasize the k. Khabibulin, Kazakhstan, Khavanov, Kharitonov, Khokhlachev, Khristich. They are all in actuality originally pronounced with the HHhh, no K's in their names.
Some Easter European countries, Russia at some point too used the French translation of last names, so H was translated as CH. Like Zdeno Chara is actually originally Zdeno Hara. And this is the hell I live in for 40 years as noone ever pronounced my last name right.
