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I prefer the spelling Vitaly, recently started to like this as a mn :)

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From your combos I like Jakob Vitaliy

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I really like Vitaliy. I too have a certain fondness for Russian names.

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My favorite combos from your list (though I like all of the others):
Eduard Vitaliy
Luka Vitaliy
Mikhail Vitaliy
Vitaliy Akim
Vitaliy Aleksandr
Vitaliy Pavel
Vitaliy Stepan

I misread it as Vitality on first glance, which would be pretty cool as a postmodern virtue name. ;) Vitaliy is not one of my favourite Russian names, but I do think it's cool

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Pavel, on the other hand is, and so I'm inclined to go "Pavel Vitaliy!", close-together V's be damned. V's are good consonants for repeating, anyhow, says the V for Vendetta freak (Voila! in view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate...). Hehe.

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Jakob Vitaliy is also doing it for me, because one of my best friends had a supersweet boyfriend from the Czech Republic named Jakub and pronounced basically the same way as Jakob. Jakob is really handsome, and Vitaliy works best to me as a mn.

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Basically all of your combos are nice enough, but those are the two that're really striking me today.

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I love Vitaliy and am trying to work it into my silly quasi-Russian story. However I am not sure if I can use it without causing confusion with my sort-of protagonist, Vikenty. I thought of Vikenty before Vitaliy, and if I had thought of Vitaliy I probably would have used it first - but no way am I going back now, now I think Vikenty's a freaking hot name.

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I feel strange making combos with Russian names, though, especially lately. I am very much in a FN + Patronymic mode.

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But yeah Vitaliy's great, this is my favorite spelling, and I like nns Vita and Talya or even Tally