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title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Ayn Rand | Alice O'Connor | 1905 | 1982 | Russian | writer and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand |
Vladimir Lenin | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | 1870 | 1924 | Russian | revolutionary, politician, and political theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin |
Yuri Slezkine | Yuri Lvovich Slezkine | 1956 | n/a | Russian | historian and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Slezkine |
Max Boot | Max A. Boot | 1969 | n/a | Russian | author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Boot |
Felix Sater | Felix Henry Sater | 1966 | n/a | Russian | mobster, convicted felon, real estate developer and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC, a real estate conglomerate based out of New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater |
Roman Abramovich | Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich | 1966 | n/a | Russian | oligarch, billionaire, businessman, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich |
Chaim Weizmann | Chaim Azriel Weizmann | 1874 | 1952 | Russian | biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann |
Garry Kasparov | Garry Kimovich Kasparov | 1963 | n/a | Russian | chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov |
Vladimir Zhirinovsky | Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky | 1946 | n/a | Russian | politician and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky |
Irving Berlin | Irving Berlin | 1888 | 1989 | Russian | composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin |
Boris Epshteyn | Boris Epshteyn | 1982 | n/a | Russian | Republican political strategist, investment banker, and attorney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Epshteyn |
Julia Ioffe | Julia Ioffe | 1982 | n/a | Russian | journalist who covers national security and foreign policy topics for GQ. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, Politico, and The Atlantic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ioffe |
Viktor Vekselberg | Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg | 1957 | n/a | Russian | oligarch, billionaire businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Vekselberg |
Grigory Zinoviev | Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev | none | 1936 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zinoviev |
Masha Gessen | Masha Gessen | 1967 | n/a | Russian | journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the former president of the United States, Donald Trump | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Gessen |
Isaiah Berlin | Sir Isaiah Berlin | 1909 | 1997 | Russian | social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin |
Boris Nemtsov | Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov | 1959 | 2015 | Russian | physicist and liberal politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov |
Maxim Litvinov | Maxim Maximovich Litvinov | 1876 | 1951 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet prominent statesman and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Litvinov |
Grigori Perelman | Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman | 1966 | n/a | Russian | mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and geometric topology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman |
Mikhail Fridman | Mikhail Maratovich Fridman | 1964 | n/a | Russian | business oligarch | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Fridman |
Ksenia Sobchak | Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak | 1981 | n/a | Russian | public figure, TV anchor, journalist, socialite and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksenia_Sobchak |
Yakov Yurovsky | Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky | none | 1938 | Russian | Old Bolshevik, revolutionary, and Soviet Chekist (secret policeman) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Yurovsky |
Aaron Rubashkin | Abraham Aaron Rubashkin | 1927 | 1928 | Russian | businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Rubashkin |
Arkady Rotenberg | Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg | 1951 | n/a | Russian | billionaire businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Rotenberg |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky | Ze'ev Jabotinsky | null | null | Russian | Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky |
Cathy Young | Catherine Alicia Young | 1963 | n/a | Russian | journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Young |
Anatoly Chubais | Anatoly Borisovich Chubais | 1955 | n/a | Russian | business oligarch who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Chubais |
Yevgeny Prigozhin | Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin | 1961 | n/a | Russian | businessman, with close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin |
Leonid Mikhelson | Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson | 1955 | n/a | Russian | billionaire businessman, CEO, chairman and major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Mikhelson |
Alexander Berkman | Alexander Berkman | 1870 | 1936 | Russian | anarchist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Berkman |
Genndy Tartakovsky | Tartakovsky | null | null | Russian | animator, director, producer, screenwriter, voice actor, storyboard artist, comic book writer and artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genndy_Tartakovsky |
Mikhail Prokhorov | Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov | 1965 | n/a | Russian | oligarch, self-made billionaire, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Prokhorov |
Regina Spektor | Regina Ilyinichna Spektor | 1980 | n/a | Russian | singer, songwriter, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Spektor |
Moshe Sharett | Moshe Sharett | n/a | 1954 | Russian | politician from the party Mapai | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Sharett |
Pavel Grudinin | Pavel Nikolayevich Grudinin | 1960 | n/a | Russian | politician and entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Grudinin |
Isaac Babel | Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel | none | 1940 | Russian | writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Babel |
Vladimir Horowitz | Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz | 1989 | n/a | Russian | classical pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz |
Boris Pasternak | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak | 1960 | n/a | Russian | poet, novelist, and literary translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak |
Yuri Milner | Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner | 1961 | n/a | Russian | entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner |
Arkady Babchenko | Arkady Arkadyevich Babchenko | 1977 | n/a | Russian | print and television journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Babchenko |
Mikhail Lesin | Mikhail Yuryevich Lesin | null | null | Russian | political figure, media executive and advisor to president Vladimir Putin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lesin |
Alexander Abramov | Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov | 1959 | n/a | Russian | former scientist who became an industrial magnate as one of the two heads of Evraz, Russia's largest steel producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Abramov |
Dasha Zhukova | Darya "Dasha" Alexandrovna Zhukova | 1981 | n/a | Russian | art collector, businesswoman, magazine editor, and socialite | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasha_Zhukova |
Vitaly Malkin | Vitaly Borisovich Malkin | 1952 | n/a | Russian | business oligarch and politician who was born in Pervouralsk near Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Malkin |
Jascha Heifetz | Jascha Heifetz | 1987 | n/a | Russian | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz |
Alfred Schnittke | Alfred Garrievich Schnittke | 1934 | 1998 | Russian | composer of Jewish-German descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke |
Leonid Bershidsky | Leonid Davidovich Bershidsky | 1971 | n/a | Russian | Berlin-based journalist, publisher and columnist for Bloomberg View, the editorial division of Bloomberg News | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Bershidsky |
Ariel Durant | Ariel Durant | 1898 | 1981 | Russian | researcher and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Durant |
David Riazanov | David Riazanov | 1870 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary, historian, bibliographer and archivist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Riazanov |
Joseph Brodsky | Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky | 1940 | 1996 | Russian | poet and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky |
Yevno Azef | Yevno Fishelevich Azef | 1869 | 1918 | Russian | socialist revolutionary who also operated as a double agent and agent provocateur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevno_Azef |
Pinhas Rutenberg | Pinhas Rutenberg | 1879 | 1942 | Russian | Jewish engineer, businessman, and political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhas_Rutenberg |
Adolph Joffe | Adolph Abramovich Joffe | 1883 | 1927 | Russian | revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Joffe |
Anton Rubinstein | Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein | null | null | Russian | pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rubinstein |
Alexander Bittelman | Alexander "Alex" Bittelman | 1890 | 1982 | Russian | Jewish-American communist political activist, Marxist theorist, influential theoretician of the Communist Party USA and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bittelman |
Dmitry Glukhovsky | Dmitry Alexeevich Glukhovsky | 1979 | n/a | Russian | author and journalist best known for the science fiction novel Metro 2033 and its sequels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Glukhovsky |
Olga Kameneva | Olga Davidovna Kameneva | 1883 | 1941 | Russian | Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kameneva |
Osip Mandelstam | Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam | none | 1938 | Russian | poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Mandelstam |
Vladimir Gusinsky | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky | 1952 | n/a | Russian | media tycoon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Gusinsky |
Lyubov Axelrod | Lyubov Isaakovna Axelrod | 1868 | 1946 | Russian | revolutionary, Marxist philosopher and an art theoretician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubov_Axelrod |
Eugene Mirman | Eugene Boris Mirman | 1974 | n/a | Russian | comedian, actor and writer, known for playing Yvgeny Mirminsky on Delocated and Gene Belcher on the animated comedy Bob's Burgers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Mirman |
Mikhail Fradkov | Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov | 1950 | n/a | Russian | politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Fradkov |
Peter Shafirov | Baron Peter Pavlovich Shafirov | 1670 | 1739 | Russian | statesman and a prominent coadjutor of Peter the Great | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shafirov |
Leo Steinberg | Leo Steinberg | 1920 | 2011 | Russian | art critic and art historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Steinberg |
Dimitri Tiomkin | Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin | 1894 | 1979 | Russian | film composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tiomkin |
Zedd | Anton Zaslavski | 1989 | n/a | Russian | DJ, record producer, and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zedd |
Aslan Karatsev | Aslan Kazbekovich Karatsev | 1993 | n/a | Russian | professional tennis player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslan_Karatsev |
Yasha Levine | Yasha Levine | null | null | Russian | investigative journalist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasha_Levine |
Jack Leon | Jack Leon | 1905 | 1967 | Russian | dance band and orchestra leader and conductor, of easy listening and light orchestral music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Leon |
Grigory Yavlinsky | Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky | 1952 | n/a | Russian | economist and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Yavlinsky |
Sophie Tucker | Sophie Tucker | 1886 | 1966 | Russian | singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker |
Alexander Friedmann | Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann | 1888 | 1925 | Russian | physicist and mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann |
Lewis Milestone | Lewis Milestone | n/a | 1931 | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Milestone |
El Lissitzky | Lazar Markovich Lissitzky | none | 1941 | Russian | artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzky |
Eugene Roshal | Eugene Roshal | 1972 | n/a | Russian | software engineer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Roshal |
Serge Koussevitzky | Serge Alexandrovich KoussevitzkyKoussevitzky's | null | null | Russian | conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Koussevitzky |
Vitaly Ginzburg | Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS | 1916 | 2009 | Russian | theoretical physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abriksov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Ginzburg |
Alla Nazimova | Alla Nazimova | 1879 | 1945 | Russian | actress, director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_Nazimova |
Jacob W. Davis | Jacob William Davis | 1831 | 1908 | Russian | Jewish-born American tailor who is credited with inventing modern jeans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_W._Davis |
Simon Dubnow | Simon Dubnow | 1860 | 1941 | Russian | Jewish historian, writer and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Dubnow |
Yevgeny Primakov | Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov | 1929 | 2015 | Russian | politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Primakov |
Palina Rojinski | Palina Rojinski | 1985 | n/a | Russian | television presenter, actress, model, and DJ. Her father is Jewish, her mother is Christian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palina_Rojinski |
Aaron Director | Aaron Director | 1901 | 2004 | Russian | economist and academic who played a central role in the development of the field Law and Economics and the Chicago school of economics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Director |
Selman Waksman | Selman Abraham Waksman | 1888 | 1973 | Russian | Empire-born Jewish-American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selman_Waksman |
Louis Ginzberg | Louis Ginzberg | 1873 | 1953 | Russian | rabbi and Talmudic scholar of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, contributing editor to numerous articles of The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), and leading figure in the Conservative movement of Judaism during the early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ginzberg |
Leopold Godowsky | Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Russian | virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Godowsky |
Anatole Litvak | Mikhail Anatol Litwak | 1902 | 1974 | Russian | filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in various countries and languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_Litvak |
Anna Khachiyan | Anna Khachiyan | 1985 | n/a | Russian | cultural critic, writer, and co-host of the podcast Red Scare based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Khachiyan |
Élie Metchnikoff | Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov | 1916 | n/a | Russian | zoologist of Romanian nobility ancestry and also here at archive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élie_Metchnikoff |
Roman Jakobson | Roman Osipovich Jakobson | 1896 | 1982 | Russian | linguist and literary theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Jakobson |
Andrei Shleifer | Andrei Shleifer | 1961 | n/a | Russian | economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Shleifer |
Louis Miller | Louis E. Miller | 1866 | 1927 | Russian | Jewish political activist who emigrated to the United States of America in 1884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Miller |
Mark Solonin | Mark Solonin | 1958 | n/a | Russian | historian and author of numerous books on the Second World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Solonin |
Boris Berezovsky (businessman) | Boris Abramovich Berezovsky | 1946 | 2013 | Russian | business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman) |
Nicolas Slonimsky | Nicolas Slonimsky | none | 1995 | Russian | conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Slonimsky |
Boris Spiegel | Boris Spiegel | 1953 | n/a | Russian | politician and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spiegel |
Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor | Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor | 1953 | n/a | Russian | international public figure, a Jewish leader, businessman, peace activist, international philanthropist and scientist, who actively participates in the promotion of tolerance and reconciliation in the modern world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viatcheslav_Moshe_Kantor |
Sidney Reilly | Sidney George Reilly | none | 1925 | Russian | adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Reilly |
Oscar Zariski | Oscar Zariski | 1899 | 1986 | Russian | mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Zariski |
Alex Shnaider | Alexander Yevseyevich Shnaider | 1968 | n/a | Russian | entrepreneur and former commodities trader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Shnaider |
Abraham Goldfaden | Abraham Goldfaden | 1840 | 1908 | Russian | Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Goldfaden |
Irina Slutskaya | Irina Eduardovna Slutskaya | 1979 | n/a | Russian | former figure skater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Slutskaya |
Maxim Vengerov | Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov | 1974 | n/a | Russian | violinist, violist, and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Vengerov |
Jakob Segal | Jakob Segal | 1911 | 1995 | Russian | biology professor at Humboldt University of Berlin in the former East Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Segal |
Vitaly Naumkin | Vitaliy Vyacheslavovich Naumkin | null | null | Russian | scholar of Central Asia and Middle East | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Naumkin |
Petr Aven | Petr Olegovich Aven | 1955 | n/a | Russian | oligarch, businessman, economist and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Aven |
Joseph M. Schenck | Joseph Michael Schenck | 1876 | 1961 | Russian | film studio executive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Schenck |
Peretz Markish | Peretz Davidovich Markish | null | null | Russian | Jewish poet and playwright who wrote predominantly in Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peretz_Markish |
Menahem Mendel Beilis | Menahem Mendel Beilis | 1874 | 1934 | Russian | Jew accused of ritual murder in Kiev in the Russian Empire in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or the "Beilis affair" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_Mendel_Beilis |
Grigory Sokolnikov | Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov | 1888 | 1939 | Russian | Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Sokolnikov |
Stanislav Belkovsky | Stanislav Alexandrovich Belkovsky | 1971 | n/a | Russian | political analyst and communication specialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Belkovsky |
Léon Bakst | Léon Bakst | null | null | Russian | painter and scene and costume designer of Belarusian origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Bakst |
Lyudmila Narusova | Lyudmila Borisovna Narusova | 1951 | n/a | Russian | politician, a member of the Federation Council of Russia, representing Tuva | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Narusova |
Peter Svidler | Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler | 1976 | n/a | Russian | chess grandmaster and an eight-time Russian Chess Champion who now frequently commentates on chess | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Svidler |
Evgeny Kissin | Evgeny Igorevich Kissin | 1971 | n/a | Russian | concert pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Kissin |
Gregory Ratoff | Gregory Ratoff | 1893 | 1960 | Russian | film director, actor and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Ratoff |
Nikolai Rubinstein | Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein | null | null | Russian | pianist, conductor, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Rubinstein |
Gregor Piatigorsky | Gregor Piatigorsky | 1976 | n/a | Russian | cellist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Piatigorsky |
Nathan Milstein | Nathan Mironovich Milstein | none | 1992 | Russian | Jewish-born American virtuoso violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Milstein |
Mischa Auer | Mischa Auer | 1905 | 1967 | Russian | actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischa_Auer |
Lev Shestov | Lev Isaakovich Shestov | 1866 | 1938 | Russian | existentialist and religious philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Shestov |
Alexander Men | Alexander Vladimirovich Men | 1935 | 1990 | Russian | Orthodox priest, theologian, biblical scholar and writer on theology, Christian history and other religions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Men |
Mikhail Mishustin | Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin | 1966 | n/a | Russian | politician and economist serving as Prime Minister of Russia since 16 January 2020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Mishustin |
Leo Deutsch | Lev Grigorievich Deutsch | 1855 | 1941 | Russian | Marxist revolutionary and one of four founding members of Russia's Marxist Organisation, the precursor of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Deutsch |
Grigory Margulis | Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis | 1946 | n/a | Russian | mathematician known for his work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Margulis |
Pavel Lungin | Pavel Semyonovich Lungin | 1949 | n/a | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Lungin |
Efim Zelmanov | Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov | 1955 | n/a | Russian | mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efim_Zelmanov |
Boris Podolsky | Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky | 1896 | 1966 | Russian | physicist of Russian-Jewish descent, noted for his work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Podolsky |
Sam Levene | Sam Levene | 1905 | 1980 | Russian | Broadway, film, radio and television actor and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Levene |
Val Lewton | Val Lewton | 1904 | 1951 | Russian | novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton |
Gene Freidman | Evgeny Alender Freidman | 1970 | 2021 | Russian | businessman and attorney who once owned a large taxi fleet in New York City, Taxi Club Management, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Freidman |
Vladimir Jurowski | Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski | 1972 | n/a | Russian | conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Jurowski |
Sabina Spielrein | Sabina Nikolayevna Spielrein | 1885 | 1942 | Russian | physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabina_Spielrein |
Yevgenia Ginzburg | Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg | 1904 | 1977 | Russian | author who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgenia_Ginzburg |
Ian Nepomniachtchi | Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi | 1990 | n/a | Russian | chess grandmaster and commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Nepomniachtchi |
Samuil Marshak | Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak | 1964 | n/a | Russian | writer of Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuil_Marshak |
Artyom Borovik | Artyom Genrikhovich Borovik | 1960 | 2000 | Russian | investigative journalist and media magnate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artyom_Borovik |
Leonid Nevzlin | Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin | 1959 | n/a | Russian | businessman, investor, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Nevzlin |
Valentin Serov | Valentin Alexandrovich Serov | 1865 | 1911 | Russian | painter and one of the premier portrait artists of his era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Serov |
Yuri Bashmet | Yuri Abramovich Bashmet | 1953 | n/a | Russian | conductor, violinist, and violist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bashmet |
Alexander Khalifman | Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman | 1966 | n/a | Russian | chess player and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Khalifman |
Sergey Kiriyenko | Sergey Vladilenovich Kiriyenko | 1962 | n/a | Russian | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Kiriyenko |
Ilya Kabakov | Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov | 1933 | n/a | Russian | conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Kabakov |
Abba Ahimeir | Abba Ahimeir | 1897 | 1962 | Russian | Jewish journalist, historian, and political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Ahimeir |
Yuri Averbakh | Yuri Lvovich Averbakh | 1922 | n/a | Russian | chess grandmaster and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Averbakh |
Sidney Myer | Sidney Myer | null | null | Russian | Jewish-Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for founding Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Myer |
Nadezhda Mandelstam | Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam | 1980 | n/a | Russian | Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Mandelstam |
Marat Gelman | Marat Aleksandrovich GelmanOfficial | 1960 | n/a | Russian | collector, gallerist, and an op-ed columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marat_Gelman |
Michael Chekhov | Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov | 1891 | 1955 | Russian | actor, director, author and theatre practitioner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chekhov |
Yakov Sinai | Yakov Grigorevich Sinai | 1935 | n/a | Russian | mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Sinai |
Eugene Rabinowitch | Eugene Rabinowitch | 1901 | 1973 | Russian | biophysicist who is known for his work in photosynthesis and nuclear energy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Rabinowitch |
Andre Kostelanetz | Andre Kostelanetz | 1901 | 1980 | Russian | popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Kostelanetz |
Rosalia Zemlyachka | Rosalia Samoilovna Zemlyachka, née Zalkind | 1876 | 1947 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_Zemlyachka |
Ilia Averbukh | Ilia Izyaslavich Averbukh | 1973 | n/a | Russian | ice dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Averbukh |
Konstantin Khabensky | Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, PAR | 1972 | n/a | Russian | actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Khabensky |
Igor Levit | Igor Levit | 1987 | n/a | Russian | pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Levit |
Mikhail Men | Mikhail Alexandrovich Men | 1960 | n/a | Russian | statesman, entrepreneur, musician, composer, producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Men |
Mischa Elman | Mischa (Mikhail Saulovich) Elman | 1891 | 1967 | Russian | Jewish-American violinist, famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischa_Elman |
Angelica Balabanoff | Angelica Balabanoff | 1878 | 1965 | Russian | Jewish–Italian communist and social democratic activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Balabanoff |
Abram Ioffe | Abram Fedorovich Ioffe | none | 1960 | Russian | prominent/Soviet physicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Ioffe |
Viktor Shklovsky | Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky | none | 1984 | Russian | literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shklovsky |
Issai Schur | Issai Schur | 1875 | 1941 | Russian | mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issai_Schur |
Alyona Minkovski | Alyona Leonidovna Minkovski | 1986 | n/a | Russian | television host and commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyona_Minkovski |
Joseph Schechtman | Joseph Schechtman | 1891 | 1970 | Russian | Revisionist Zionist activist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schechtman |
Al Sherman | Avrum Sherman | 1897 | 1973 | Russian | songwriter and composer active during the Tin Pan Alley era in American music history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sherman |
Simon Kukes | Simon Gregory Kukes | 1946 | n/a | Russian | chemist and retired oil industry businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Kukes |
Maxim Staviski | Maxim Staviski | 1977 | n/a | Russian | naturalized Bulgarian ice dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Staviski |
Mischa Spoliansky | Mischa Spoliansky | 1898 | 1985 | Russian | composer who lived for many years in Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischa_Spoliansky |
Timati | Timur Ildarovich Yunusov | 1983 | n/a | Russian | hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor and entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timati |
Edward Frenkel | Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel | 1968 | n/a | Russian | mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Frenkel |
L. Wolfe Gilbert | Louis Wolfe Gilbert | 1886 | 1970 | Russian | Empire-born American songwriter of Tin Pan Alley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Wolfe_Gilbert |
Dick Manning | Dick Manning | null | null | Russian | songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Manning |
Shaul Tchernichovsky | Shaul Tchernichovsky | 1875 | 1943 | Russian | Hebrew poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul_Tchernichovsky |
George Zweig | George Zweig | 1937 | n/a | Russian | physicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zweig |
Kirill Petrenko | Kirill Garrievich Petrenko | 1972 | n/a | Russian | conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Petrenko |
Paul List | Pawel M. List | 1887 | 1954 | Russian | Jewish chess player, who emigrated to Britain in 1937 but never took British citizenship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_List |
Sonya Levien | Sonya Levien | 1888 | 1960 | Russian | screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Levien |
Gregory Breit | Gregory Breit | 1899 | 1981 | Russian | Jewish physicist and professor at New York University (1929–1934), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1934–1947), Yale University (1947–1968), and University at Buffalo (1968–1973) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Breit |
Roman Vishniac | Roman Vishniac | 1897 | 1990 | Russian | photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Vishniac |
Dawid Janowski | Dawid Markelowicz Janowski | 1868 | 1927 | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawid_Janowski |
Elya Baskin | Ilya Zalmanovich Baskin | 1950 | n/a | Russian | character actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elya_Baskin |
Daniel Prenn | Daniel Prenn | 1904 | 1991 | Russian | German, Polish, and British tennis player who was Jewish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Prenn |
Alexander Serov | Alexander Nikolayevich Serov | null | null | Russian | composer and music critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Serov |
Abraham Harkavy | Abraham (Albert) Harkavy | 1835 | 1919 | Russian | historian and orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Harkavy |
Arcadi Gaydamak | Arcadi Aleksandrovich Gaydamak | 1952 | n/a | Russian | businessman, philanthropist, and President of the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations of Russia (KEROOR) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadi_Gaydamak |
Raphael Soyer | Raphael Zalman Soyer | 1899 | 1987 | Russian | painter, draftsman, and printmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Soyer |
Samuel Joseph Fuenn | Samuel Joseph Fuenn | 1818 | 1891 | Russian | Hebrew writer, scholar, printer, and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Joseph_Fuenn |
Grigory Sokolov | Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov | 1950 | n/a | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Sokolov |
Ida Rubinstein | Ida Lvovna Rubinstein | none | 1960 | Russian | dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rubinstein |
Vladimir Sokoloff | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sokoloff | 1889 | 1962 | Russian | character actor of stage and screen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Sokoloff |
Yelena Khanga | Yelena Abdulaevna Khanga | 1962 | n/a | Russian | journalist who was raised in Moscow, USSR, and came to the United States in 1990 to write (with Susan Jacoby) Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family: 1865–1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelena_Khanga |
Waldemar Gurian | Waldemar Gurian | 1902 | 1954 | Russian | political scientist, author, and professor at the University of Notre Dame | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Gurian |
Alexei Uchitel | Aleksei Yefimovich Uchitel | 1951 | n/a | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Uchitel |
Benjamin Zuskin | Benjamin Zuskin | null | null | Russian | Jewish actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater (GOSET) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Zuskin |
Mark Feygin | Mark Zakharovich Feygin | 1971 | n/a | Russian | former lawyer and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Feygin |
Semyon Reznik | Semyon Efimovich Reznik | 1938 | n/a | Russian | writer, journalist, man of letters and historian, noted in particular for his study of the blood libel and the resurgence of Neonazism in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Reznik |
Alexander Gomelsky | Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky | 1928 | 2005 | Russian | professional basketball player and coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gomelsky |
Yuli Daniel | Yuli Markovich Daniel | 1925 | 1988 | Russian | writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuli_Daniel |
Ossip Bernstein | Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein | 1882 | 1962 | Russian | chess player and business man | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Bernstein |
Lilya Brik | Lilya Yuryevna Brik | none | 1978 | Russian | author and socialite, connected to many leading figures in the Russian avant-garde between 1914 and 1930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya_Brik |
Max Landa | Max Landa | 1873 | 1933 | Russian | silent film and stage actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landa |
Leo Klejn | Lev Samuilovich Kleyn | 1927 | 2019 | Russian | archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Klejn |
Louis Gruenberg | Louis Gruenberg | 1964 | n/a | Russian | pianist and prolific composer, especially of operas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gruenberg |
Benno Moiseiwitsch | Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE | 1890 | 1963 | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno_Moiseiwitsch |
Felix Blumenfeld | Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld | none | 1931 | Russian | composer, conductor of the Imperial Opera St-Petersburg, pianist, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Blumenfeld |
Alexander Gerschenkron | Alexander Gerschenkron | 1904 | 1978 | Russian | economic historian and professor at Harvard University, trained in the Austrian School of economics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gerschenkron |
Urie Bronfenbrenner | Urie Bronfenbrenner | 1917 | 2005 | Russian | psychologist who is most known for his ecological systems theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urie_Bronfenbrenner |
Dmitri Bashkirov | Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov | 1931 | 2021 | Russian | pianist and academic teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Bashkirov |
Igor Butman | Igor Butman PAR | null | null | Russian | jazz saxophonist born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Butman |
Lilia Akhaimova | Lilia Igorevna Akhaimova | 1997 | n/a | Russian | artistic gymnast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilia_Akhaimova |
Josef Lhévinne | Josef Lhévinne | 1874 | 1944 | Russian | pianist and piano teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Lhévinne |
Aleksandr Averbukh | Aleksandr "Alex" Valeryevich Averbukh | 1974 | n/a | Russian | retired decathlete and Israeli Olympic athlete, who competed in the pole vault | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Averbukh |
Pavel Khodorkovsky | Pavel Mikhailovich Khodorkovsky | 1985 | n/a | Russian | businessman and political activist who has lived in the United States since 2003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Khodorkovsky |
Joshua Steinberg | Joshua Steinberg | 1839 | 1908 | Russian | Jewish writer and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Steinberg |
Vladimir Granat | Vladimir Vasilyevich Granat | 1987 | n/a | Russian | professional footballer who plays as a centre-back | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Granat |
Alexander Khloponin | Alexander Gennadyevich Khloponin | 1965 | n/a | Russian | politician who was the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia, Russia, from October 2002 until January 2010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Khloponin |
Vladimir Voinovich | Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich | 1932 | 2018 | Russian | writer and Soviet former dissident | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Voinovich |
Semyon Frank | Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank | 1877 | 1950 | Russian | philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Frank |
Alexander Gradsky | Alexander Borisovich Gradsky | 1949 | 2021 | Russian | rock singer, bard, multi-instrumentalist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gradsky |
Ivan Urgant | Ivan Andreevich Urgant | 1978 | n/a | Russian | television host, presenter, actor, musician and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Urgant |
Jacob Gordin | Jacob Michailovitch Gordin | 1853 | 1909 | Russian | playwright active in the early years of Yiddish theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Gordin |
Natalia Gutman | Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman | 1942 | n/a | Russian | cellist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Gutman |
Nathan Altman | Nathan Isaevich Altman | none | 1970 | Russian | avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Altman |
Josef Gingold | Josef Gingold | 1995 | n/a | Russian | Jewish-born classical violinist and teacher who lived most of his life in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Gingold |
Pavel Polian | Pavel Markovich Polian, pseudonym: Pavel Nerler | 1952 | n/a | Russian | geographer and historian, and Doctor of Geographical Sciences with the Institute of Geography (1998) of the Russian Academy of Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Polian |
Ossip Gabrilowitsch | Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilowitsch | null | null | Russian | pianist, conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Gabrilowitsch |
Nikolai Brashman | Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman | 1796 | none | Russian | mathematician of Jewish-Austrian origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Brashman |
Gershon Agron | Gershon Harry Agron | 1893 | 18941 | Russian | newspaper editor, politician, and the mayor of West Jerusalem between 1955 and his death in 1959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Agron |
Max Lerner | Max Lerner | 1902 | 1992 | Russian | journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Lerner |
Zakhar Bron | Zakhar Bron | 1947 | n/a | Russian | violinist and violin pedagogue of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakhar_Bron |
Menachem Ussishkin | Menachem Ussishkin | 1863 | 1941 | Russian | Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Ussishkin |
Dmitry Pevtsov | Dmitry Anatolyevich Pevtsov | 1963 | n/a | Russian | actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Pevtsov |
Stanislav Donets | Stanislav Yuryevich Donets | 1983 | n/a | Russian | swimmer from Dimitrovgrad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Donets |
Daniel Chwolson | Daniel Abramovich Chwolson | null | null | Russian | Jewish orientalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Chwolson |
Grigory Barenblatt | Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt | 1927 | 2018 | Russian | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Barenblatt |
Boris Goldovsky | Boris Goldovsky | 1908 | 2001 | Russian | conductor and broadcast commentator, active in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Goldovsky |
Nicholas Schenck | Nicholas M. Schenck | 1880 | 1969 | Russian | film studio executive and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Schenck |
Isaac Baer Levinsohn | Isaac Baer Levinsohn | 1788 | 1860 | Russian | Hebrew scholar, satirist, writer and Haskalah leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Baer_Levinsohn |
Ilya Klebanov | Ilya Iosifovich Klebanov | 1951 | n/a | Russian | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Klebanov |
Ernst Neizvestny | Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny | 1925 | 2016 | Russian | sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Neizvestny |
Margarita Levieva | Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva | 1980 | n/a | Russian | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita_Levieva |
Yakov Perelman | Yakov Isidorovich Perelman | none | 1942 | Russian | science writer and author of many popular science books, including Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun (both translated from Russian into English) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Perelman |
Yakov Kreizberg | Yakov Kreizberg | 1959 | 2011 | Russian | conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Kreizberg |
Jacek Rotmil | Jacek Rotmil | 1888 | 1944 | Russian | art director and production designer who worked on 100 films during his career Following the First World War, Rotmil entered the booming German film industry and worked prolifically until 1933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Rotmil |
Abraham Kaufman | Dr. Abraham Josevich Kaufman | 1885 | 1971 | Russian | medical doctor, community organizer and Zionist who helped protect some tens of thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in East Asia from Nazi atrocities during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Kaufman |
Max Weinreich | Max Weinreich | 1894 | 1969 | Russian | Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weinreich |
Yosef Haim Brenner | Yosef Haim Brenner | 1881 | 1921 | Russian | Hebrew-language author and one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Haim_Brenner |
Maria Konnikova | Maria Konnikova | null | null | Russian | writer with a Ph.D in psychology from Columbia University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Konnikova |
Zhan Bush | Zhan Viacheslavovich Bush | 1993 | n/a | Russian | figure skater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhan_Bush |
Alexei Venediktov | Alexey Alexeyevich Venediktov | 1955 | n/a | Russian | journalist, editor-in-chief, host and co-owner of the Echo of Moscow radio station, as well as publisher of Diletant history magazine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Venediktov |
Eugene Shvidler | Evgeny Markovich Shvidler | 1964 | n/a | Russian | billionaire oil businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Shvidler |
Leonid Pasternak | Leonid Osipovich Pasternak | 1862 | n/a | Russian | post-impressionist painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Pasternak |
Raphael Abramovitch | Raphael Abramovitch Rein | 1880 | 1963 | Russian | socialist, a member of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund), and a leader of the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (RSDRP) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Abramovitch |
God Nisanov | God Semenovich Nisanov | 1972 | n/a | Russian | billionaire property developer of Jewish descent, and the chairman of Kievskaya Square - the largest Russian commercial estate holding | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Nisanov |
Ilya Rabinovich | Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich | 1891 | 1942 | Russian | and later Soviet chess player, among the best ones in his country for three decades, from 1910 to 1940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Rabinovich |
Pyotr Todorovsky | Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky | 1925 | 2013 | Russian | film director, screenwriter and cinematographer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Todorovsky |
Vitaly Fridzon | Vitaly Valeryevich Fridzon | 1985 | n/a | Russian | former professional basketball player who last played for Zenit Saint Petersburg of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Fridzon |
Boris Kaufman | Boris Abelevich Kaufman, A.S.C. | 1906 | 1980 | Russian | cinematographer and the younger brother of filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kaufman |
Elsa Triolet | Elsa Triolet | null | null | Russian | writer and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Triolet |
Vadim Rogovin | Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin | 1937 | 1998 | Russian | Marxist (Trotskyist)Rogovin'a obituary by David North historian and sociologist, Ph.D. in philosophy, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the author of Was There An Alternative?, the 7-volume study of Stalin era between 1923 and 1940, with an emphasis on the Trotskyist opposition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Rogovin |
Alexander Babakov | Alexander Mikhailovich Babakov | 1963 | n/a | Russian | politician and member of the State Duma, the Russian parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Babakov |
Volin | Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum | 1882 | 1945 | Russian | anarchist who participated in the Russian Revolutions before being forced into exile by the Bolshevik Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volin |
Kseniya Rappoport | Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport | 1974 | n/a | Russian | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kseniya_Rappoport |
Alexander Ginzburg | Alexander "Alik" Ilyich Ginzburg | 1936 | 2002 | Russian | journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ginzburg |
Antoine Pevsner | Antoine Pevsner | 1962 | n/a | Russian | sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Pevsner |
Hillel Yaffe | Hillel Yaffe | 1864 | 1936 | Russian | Jewish physician and Zionist leader who immigrated to Palestine during the First Aliyah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Yaffe |
Osip Brik | Osip Maksimovich Brik | 1888 | 1945 | Russian | avant garde writer and literary critic, who was one of the most important members of the Russian formalist school, though he also identified himself as one of the Futurists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Brik |
Sergei Slonimsky | Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky | 1932 | 2020 | Russian | composer, pianist and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Slonimsky |
Herman Branover | Herman Branover | 1931 | n/a | Russian | physicist and Jewish educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Branover |
Leon Max | Leon Max | 1954 | n/a | Russian | fashion designer and retailer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Max |
Samuil Feinberg | Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg | 1890 | 1962 | Russian | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuil_Feinberg |
Joseph Achron | Joseph Yulyevich Achron | 1886 | 1943 | Russian | Jewish composer and violinist, who settled in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Achron |
Stan Polovets | Stan Polovets | 1963 | n/a | Russian | businessman and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Polovets |
Natan Yavlinsky | Natan Aronovich Yavlinsky | 1912 | 1962 | Russian | nuclear physicist who invented and developed the first working tokamak | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natan_Yavlinsky |
Selig Brodetsky | Selig Brodetsky, זליג ברודצק | 1888 | 1954 | Russian | mathematician, a member of the World Zionist Executive, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the second president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selig_Brodetsky |
Natalia Dubova | Natalia Ilinichna Dubova | 1948 | n/a | Russian | ice dancing coach and former competitive ice dancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Dubova |
Léon Zitrone | Léon Zitrone | 1914 | 1995 | Russian | journalist and television presenter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Zitrone |
Chana Orloff | Chana Orloff | 1888 | 1968 | Russian | Art deco and figurative art sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chana_Orloff |
Arkadi Kremer | Arkadi Kremer | 1865 | 1935 | Russian | socialist leader known as the 'Father of the Bund' (the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadi_Kremer |
Sophia Parnok | Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok | 1885 | 1885 | Russian | poet, journalist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Parnok |
Mark Hambourg | Mark Hambourg | 1879 | 1960 | Russian | concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hambourg |
Abraham I. Shiplacoff | Abraham Isaac "Abe" Shiplacoff | 1877 | 1934 | Russian | Jewish-American trade union organizer and left wing political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_I._Shiplacoff |
Arkady Khait | Arkady Iosifovich Khait | 1938 | 2000 | Russian | Jewish satire, comedy, song and script writer, and a comedian in his late years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Khait |
Irina Levitina | Irina Solomonovna Levitina | 1954 | n/a | Russian | chess and bridge player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Levitina |
Adolph Brodsky | Adolph Davidovich Brodsky | none | 1929 | Russian | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Brodsky |
Abba P. Lerner | Abraham "Abba" Ptachya Lerner | 1903 | 1982 | Russian | economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_P._Lerner |
Maxim Katz | Maxim Yevgenievich Katz | 1984 | n/a | Russian | political and public figure, co-founder of the Urban Projects Foundation, author of the YouTube channel of the same name, Russian champion in sports poker, wikipedian, former deputy of the municipal assembly of the Moscow region Schukino (III convocation 2012–2016) from Party "Yabloko" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Katz |
Abraham Wolf | Abraham Wolf | 1876 | 1948 | Russian | historian, philosopher, writer, and rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wolf |
Mikhail Epstein | Mikhail Naumovich Epstein | 1950 | n/a | Russian | literary scholar and essayist who is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, Atlanta, US. He moved there from Moscow, USSR, in 1990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Epstein |
Mark Dvoretsky | Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky | 1947 | 2016 | Russian | chess trainer, writer, and International Master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dvoretsky |
Adolf E. Licho | Adolf Edgar Licho | 1876 | 1944 | Russian | actor, screenwriter, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_E._Licho |
Yury Verlinsky | Yury Verlinsky | 1943 | 2009 | Russian | medical researcher specializing in embryo and cellular genetics (genetic cytology) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Verlinsky |
Diana Shnaider | Diana Maximovna Shnaider | 2004 | n/a | Russian | tennis player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Shnaider |
Vadim Moshkovich | Vadim Moshkovich | 1967 | n/a | Russian | billionaire and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Moshkovich |
Yaakov Kedmi | Yaakov Kedmi | 1947 | n/a | Russian | politician and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov_Kedmi |
Moses Schönfinkel | Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel | 1888 | 1942 | Russian | logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Schönfinkel |
Sophie Milman | Sophie Milman | 1983 | n/a | Russian | jazz vocalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Milman |
Shakne Epshtein | Shakne Epshtein | 1883 | 1945 | Russian | journalist and the secretary and editor of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC)'s newspaper, Eynikayt (Unity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakne_Epshtein |
Lev Naumov | Lev Nikolayevich Naumov | 1925 | 2005 | Russian | classical pianist, composer and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Naumov |
Robert Falk | Robert Rafailovich Falk | null | null | Russian | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falk |
Igor Rotenberg | Igor Rotenberg | null | null | Russian | billionaire businessman, and the oldest son and heir to Arkady Rotenberg, Russian billionaire businessman and co-owner with brother Boris Rotenberg, of the SGM (Stroygazmontazh) group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Rotenberg |
Boris Eifman | Boris Eifman | 1946 | n/a | Russian | choreographer and artistic director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Eifman |
Mark Natanson | Mark Andreyevich Natanson | 1850 | 1851 | Russian | revolutionary who was one of the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky, Land and Liberty and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Natanson |
Alexandra Aikhenvald | Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald (Eichenwald) | null | null | Russian | linguist specialising in linguistic typology and the Arawak language family (including Tariana) of the Brazilian Amazon basin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Aikhenvald |
Peretz Smolenskin | Peretz (Peter) Smolenskin | 1842 | 1885 | Russian | Zionist and Hebrew writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peretz_Smolenskin |
Alexis Granowsky | Alexis Granowsky | 1890 | 1937 | Russian | theatre director who later became a film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Granowsky |
Vladimir Feltsman | Vladimir Oskarovich Feltsman | 1952 | n/a | Russian | classical pianist of Lithuanian Jewish descent particularly noted for his devotion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Feltsman |
Michail Jurowski | Michail Vladimirovich Jurowski | 1945 | n/a | Russian | conductor and the son of composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski (1915–1972) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Jurowski |
Konstantin Kisin | Konstantin Kisin | null | null | Russian | comedian and political commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Kisin |
Ilya Rubanovich | Ilya Alfonsovich Rubanovich | 1859 | 1920 | Russian | revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') in the 1880s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Rubanovich |
Alexander Knaifel | Alexander Aronovich Knaifel | 1943 | n/a | Russian | composer known for his operas The Ghost of Canterville and Alice in Wonderland as well as for his music for cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Knaifel |
Alexander Smallens | Alexander Smallens | 1889 | 1972 | Russian | conductor and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Smallens |
Boris Berman (musician) | Boris Berman | 1948 | n/a | Russian | pianist and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berman_(musician) |
Alexander Klyachin | Alexander Klyachin | null | null | Russian | entrepreneur and investor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Klyachin |
Kirill Gerstein | Kirill Gerstein | 1979 | n/a | Russian | concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Gerstein |
Pavel Litvinov | Pavel Mikhailovich Litvinov | 1940 | n/a | Russian | U.S. physicist, writer, teacher, human rights activist and Soviet former-era dissident | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Litvinov |
Clara Peller | Clara Peller | 1902 | 1987 | Russian | manicurist and television personality who, already an octogenarian, starred in the 1984 "Where's the beef?" advertising campaign for the Wendy's fast food restaurant chain, created by the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Peller |
Fedor Ozep | Fedor Ozep or Fyodor Otsep | 1895 | 1949 | Russian | film director and screenwriter, born in Moscow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Ozep |
Mark Ermler | Mark Fridrikhovich Ermler | 1932 | 2002 | Russian | conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ermler |
Marc Klionsky | Marc Klionsky | 1927 | 2017 | Russian | artist who worked in New York City from his immigration in 1974 until his passing in 2017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Klionsky |
Zamir Gotta | Iazamir "Zamir" Gotta | null | null | Russian | producer and broadcaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamir_Gotta |
Aryeh Dvoretzky | Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky | 1916 | 2008 | Russian | mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Dvoretzky |
Boris Leven | Boris Leven | 1908 | 1986 | Russian | Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Leven |
Isaac Rabinowitz | Isaac ben Mordechai Rabinowitz | 1846 | 1900 | Russian | Jewish poet and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Rabinowitz |
Chava Shapiro | Chava Shapiro | 1876 | 1943 | Russian | Jewish writer, critic, and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chava_Shapiro |
Orest Khvolson | Orest Danilovich Khvolson | null | null | Russian | physicist and honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1920) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orest_Khvolson |
Louis Lozowick | Louis Lozowick | 1892 | 1973 | Russian | painter and printmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lozowick |
Daniil Gleikhengauz | Daniil Markovich Gleikhengauz (or Gleichenhaus; | 1991 | n/a | Russian | former ice dancer and single skater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Gleikhengauz |
Mark Aldanov | Mark Aldanov | 1888 | 1889 | Russian | Empire and later French writer and critic, known for his historical novels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Aldanov |
Yakov Flier | Yakov Vladimirovich Flier | 1912 | 1977 | Russian | Jewish concert pianist and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Flier |
Victor Trivas | Victor Trivas | 1896 | 1970 | Russian | Jewish screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Trivas |
Osip Piatnitsky | Osip Aaronovitch Piatnitsky | 1882 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Piatnitsky |
Abram Room | Abram Matveyevich Room | 1894 | n/a | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Room |
Alexander Rosenbaum | Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum PAR | 1951 | n/a | Russian | bard from Saint Petersburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rosenbaum |
Konstantin Raikin | Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin | 1950 | n/a | Russian | actor and theatre director, the head of the Moscow Satyricon Theatre (since 1988) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Raikin |
Victor Shenderovich | Victor Anatolievich Shenderovich | 1958 | n/a | Russian | satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Shenderovich |
Konstantin Shayne | Konstantin Shayne | 1888 | 1974 | Russian | actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Shayne |
Viktor Zhirmunsky | Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky | 1891 | 1971 | Russian | literary historian and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhirmunsky |
Dave Tarras | Dave Tarras | 1895 | 1989 | Russian | klezmer clarinetist and bandleader, and was one of the most celebrated klezmer musicians of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tarras |
Abraham Walkowitz | Abraham Walkowitz | 1878 | 1965 | Russian | painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Walkowitz |
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor | Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor | 1817 | 1896 | Russian | rabbi, posek and Talmudic sage of the 19th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzchak_Elchanan_Spektor |
Vladimir Krainev | Vladimir Krainev | 1944 | 2011 | Russian | pianist and professor of piano, People's Artist of the USSR. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Krainev |
Grigory Frid | Grigory Samuilovich Frid also known as Grigori Fried | 1915 | 2012 | Russian | composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Frid |
Boris Romanovich Rotenberg | Boris Romanovich Rotenberg | 1957 | n/a | Russian | business man and oligarch | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Romanovich_Rotenberg |
Horace Günzburg | Horace Günzburg | null | null | Russian | philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Günzburg |
Ibram Lassaw | Ibram Lassaw | 1913 | 2003 | Russian | sculptor, known for non-objective construction in brazed metals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibram_Lassaw |
Mikhail Shufutinsky | Mikhail Zakharovich Shufutinsky | null | null | Russian | pop singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Shufutinsky |
Joseph Günzburg | Joseph Günzburg | null | null | Russian | financier and philanthropist who became a baron in 1874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Günzburg |
Oxxxymiron | Miron Yanovich Fyodorov | 1985 | n/a | Russian | hip-hop artist and former executive director of the Booking Machine booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record label Vagabund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxxxymiron |
Anna Kuliscioff | Anna Kuliscioff | 1857 | 1925 | Russian | Jewish revolutionary, a prominent feminist, an anarchist influenced by Mikhail Bakunin, and eventually a Marxist socialist militant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kuliscioff |
Yulii Khariton | Yulii Borisovich Khariton | 1904 | 1996 | Russian | physicist and a leading scientist in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulii_Khariton |
Vladimir Gribov | Vladimir Naumovich Gribov | 1930 | 1997 | Russian | prominent theoretical physicist, who worked on high-energy physics, quantum field theory and the Regge theory of the strong interactions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Gribov |
Jack Dishel | Jack Dishel | 1976 | n/a | Russian | musician, actor, writer, director, comic and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dishel |
Evsey Domar | Evsey David Domar | 1914 | 1997 | Russian | economist, famous as developer of the Harrod–Domar model | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evsey_Domar |
Yakov Estrin | Yakov Borisovich Estrin | 1923 | 1987 | Russian | chess player, chess theoretician, writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion who held the chess titles of International Master and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Estrin |
Victor Zalgaller | Victor (Viktor) Abramovich Zalgaller | 1920 | 2020 | Russian | mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Zalgaller |
Efrem Kurtz | Efrem Kurtz | 1900 | 1995 | Russian | conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Kurtz |
Alexander Brailowsky | Alexander Brailowsky | 1896 | 1976 | Russian | pianist who specialised in the works of Frédéric Chopin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Brailowsky |
Jacob Klein (philosopher) | Jacob Klein | 1899 | 1978 | Russian | philosopher and interpreter of Plato, who worked extensively on the nature and historical origin of modern symbolic mathematics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Klein_(philosopher) |
Vladimir Solovyov (journalist) | Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov | 1963 | n/a | Russian | journalist, television presenter, radio host and propagandist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Solovyov_(journalist) |
Shmuel Rodensky | Shmuel Rodensky | 1902 | 1989 | Russian | actor whose stage, film, and television career in Israel and West Germany spanned six decades | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Rodensky |
Baruch Agadati | Baruch Agadati | 1895 | 1976 | Russian | Empire-born Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Agadati |
Maria Mazina | Maria Valeryevna Mazina | 1964 | n/a | Russian | women's épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mazina |
Arthur Friedheim | Arthur Friedheim | 1859 | 1932 | Russian | concert pianist and composer who was one of Franz Liszt's foremost pupils | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Friedheim |
Veniamin Basner | Veniamin Efimovich Basner | 1925 | 1996 | Russian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veniamin_Basner |
Igor Lebedev (politician) | Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev | 1972 | n/a | Russian | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Lebedev_(politician) |
David Edelstadt | David Edelstadt | 1866 | 1892 | Russian | anarchist poet in the Yiddish language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Edelstadt |
Alexander Schapiro | Alexander "Sanya" Moiseyevich Schapiro | 1882 | 1883 | Russian | anarcho-syndicalist activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Schapiro |
Igor Levitin | Igor Yevgenyevich Levitin | 1952 | n/a | Russian | political figure, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation since September 2013, and Class 1 Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation (2013) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Levitin |
Isabella Grinevskaya | Beyle (Berta) Friedberg | 1864 | 1944 | Russian | Jewish novelist, poet, and dramatist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Grinevskaya |
Mark Antokolsky | Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky | 1840 | 1902 | Russian | Imperial sculptor of Lithuanian Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Antokolsky |
Evgeniy Najer | Evgeniy Yuryevich Najer | 1977 | n/a | Russian | chess grandmaster and the European champion of 2015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeniy_Najer |
Sasha Chorny | Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg | none | 1932 | Russian | poet, satirist and children's writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Chorny |
Eugène Vinaver | Eugène Vinaver | 1899 | 1979 | Russian | literary scholar who is best known today for his edition of the works of Sir Thomas Malory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Vinaver |
Vladimir Liberzon | Vladimir Mikhailovich Liberzon | 1937 | 1996 | Russian | chess grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Liberzon |
Gennady Khazanov | Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov | 1945 | n/a | Russian | stand-up comedian and part-time actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Khazanov |
David Tyshler | David (also "Davyd") Abramovich Tyshler | 1927 | 2014 | Russian | sabreur, part of the first generation of internationally successful Soviet fencers (Olympic bronze medalist in 1956, and five-time World Championship finalist between 1955 and 1959) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tyshler |
Vladimir Bogoraz | Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz | n/a | 1936 | Russian | revolutionary, writer and anthropologist, especially known for his studies of the Chukchi people in Siberia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bogoraz |
Sulamith Messerer | Sulamith Mikhailovna Messerer, OBE | 1908 | 2004 | Russian | ballerina and choreographer who laid the foundations for the classical ballet in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulamith_Messerer |
Alexander Melnikov (pianist) | Alexander Markovich Melnikov | 1973 | n/a | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Melnikov_(pianist) |
Nikita Malyarov | Nikita Anatolyevich Malyarov | 1989 | n/a | Russian | professional football player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Malyarov |
Minuetta Kessler | Minuetta Shumiatcher Borek Kessler | 1914 | 2002 | Russian | and later American concert pianist, classical music composer, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuetta_Kessler |
Arkady Shilkloper | Arkady Shilkloper | 1956 | n/a | Russian | multi-instrumentalist (Horn, Alphorn, Flugelhorn, Vogelhorn, Karnay, Elephant Kuhlo-Horn, Corno da caccia, Corno pastoriccio, Shells, Didgeridoo, Shofar) and composer, currently living in Berlin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Shilkloper |
Isaac Soyer | Isaac Soyer | 1902 | 1981 | Russian | social realist painter and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Soyer |
Boris Eikhenbaum | Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum | 1886 | 1959 | Russian | literary scholar and historian of Russian literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Eikhenbaum |
Boris Tsirelson | Boris Semyonovich Tsirelson | 1950 | 2020 | Russian | mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Tsirelson |
Simon Barere | Simon Barere | none | 1951 | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Barere |
Leonid Volkov (politician) | Leonid Mikhailovich Volkov | 1980 | n/a | Russian | politician and public figure, IT specialist, chief of staff for Alexei Navalny's campaign for the 2018 presidential election and subsequently the campaign of the "voter strike", co-founder of the Society for the Protection of the Internet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Volkov_(politician) |
Ilya Naishuller | Ilya Viktorovich Naishuller | 1983 | n/a | Russian | musician and filmmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Naishuller |
Rachel Wischnitzer | Rachel Bernstein Wischnitzer | 1885 | 1989 | Russian | architect and art historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Wischnitzer |
Igor Mel'čuk | Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk, sometimes Melchuk | 1932 | n/a | Russian | linguist, a retired professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation, Université de Montréal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Mel'čuk |
Yevgeny Sudbin | Yevgeny Olegovich Sudbin | 1980 | n/a | Russian | concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Sudbin |
Georges Gurvitch | Georges Gurvitch | 1894 | 1965 | Russian | sociologist and jurist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Gurvitch |
Aharon Dolgopolsky | Aharon Dolgopolsky | 1930 | 2012 | Russian | linguist who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Dolgopolsky |
Shamil Sabirov | Shamil Altaevich Sabirov | 1959 | n/a | Russian | retired light-flyweight boxer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil_Sabirov |
Alexander Goldenweiser (anthropologist) | Alexander Aleksandrovich Goldenweiser | none | 1940 | Russian | U.S. anthropologist and sociologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldenweiser_(anthropologist) |
Sergey Ivanovich Gusev | Sergei Ivanovich Gusev | 1874 | 1933 | Russian | revolutionary, a founding member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), and Soviet politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Ivanovich_Gusev |
Sergey Zagraevsky | Sergey Zagraevsky | 1964 | 2020 | Russian | painter, architectural historian, writer and theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Zagraevsky |
Paul Sophus Epstein | Paul Sophus Epstein | 1883 | 1966 | Russian | mathematical physicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sophus_Epstein |
Valentin Parnakh | Valentin Yakovlevich Parnakh | 1891 | 1951 | Russian | musician and choreographer, who was a founding father of Soviet jazz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Parnakh |
Jascha Brodsky | Jascha Brodsky | 1907 | 1997 | Russian | violinist and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Brodsky |
Vera Inber | Vera Mikhailovna Inber | 1890 | 1972 | Russian | poet and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Inber |
Mikhail Yakushin | Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin | 1910 | 1997 | Russian | football and field hockey player, later a manager of Dynamo Moscow and the USSR. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Yakushin |
Alexander Gurwitsch | Alexander Gavrilovich Gurwitsch | 1874 | 1954 | Russian | biologist and medical scientist who originated the morphogenetic field theory and discovered the biophoton | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gurwitsch |
DJ Smash | Andrey Leonidovich Shirman | 1982 | n/a | Russian | DJ in house music and electronic music, and also a music producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Smash |
Avrom Ber Gotlober | Avrom Ber Gotlober | 1811 | 1899 | Russian | Maskilic writer, poet, playwright, historian, journalist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrom_Ber_Gotlober |
Alexander Harkavy | Alexander Harkavy | 1863 | n/a | Russian | writer, lexicographer and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Harkavy |
Sara Adler | Sara Adler | 1858 | 1953 | Russian | Jewish actress in Yiddish theater who made her career mainly in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Adler |
Genrikh Sapgir | Genrikh Sapgir | 1928 | 1999 | Russian | poet and fiction writer of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Sapgir |
Gleb Galperin | Gleb Sergeyevich Galperin | 1985 | n/a | Russian | diver | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleb_Galperin |
Mikhail Kaufman | Mikhail Abelovich Kaufman | 1897 | 1980 | Russian | cinematographer and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kaufman |
Leonid Yakubovich | Leonid Arkadyevich Yakubovich PAR | 1945 | n/a | Russian | actor and television host, best known for hosting the game show Pole Chudes (the Russian version of the Wheel of Fortune – literally, The Field of Wonders – and the celebrity episode of Slaboye Zveno) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Yakubovich |
Véra Korène | Véra Korène | 1901 | 1996 | Russian | actress and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Véra_Korène |
Grigory Pomerants | Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants | 1918 | 2013 | Russian | philosopher and cultural theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Pomerants |
Fania Marinoff | Fania Marinoff | 1890 | 1971 | Russian | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fania_Marinoff |
Mischa Levitzki | Mischa Levitzki | 1898 | 1941 | Russian | U. S.-based concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischa_Levitzki |
David Günzburg | David Goratsiyevich Günzburg | 1857 | 1910 | Russian | orientalist and Jewish communal leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Günzburg |
Mira Mendelson | Mariya-Cecilia Abramovna Mendelson-Prokofieva , typically referred to as Mira Mendelson | n/a | 1968 | Russian | poet, writer, and translator who was the second wife of the composer Sergei Prokofiev | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Mendelson |
Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya | Yelizaveta Yakovlevna Tarakhovskaya | 1891 | 1968 | Russian | poet, playwright, translator, and author of children's books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelizaveta_Tarakhovskaya |
Timur Rodriguez | Timur Mikailovich Rodriguez | 1979 | n/a | Russian | showman, singer, TV and radio personality, known for his participation on the TV projects KVN, Comedy Club and «Yuzhnoye Butovo», and leading programs «Crocodile», «Sexy chart» and «Dances without rules» | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Rodriguez |
William Zeitlin | William Zeitlin | none | 1921 | Russian | scholar and bibliographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zeitlin |
Nina Simonovich-Efimova | Nina Simonovich-Efimova | 1877 | 1877 | Russian | artist, puppet designer and one of the first professional Russian puppeteers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simonovich-Efimova |
Mikhail Gnessin | Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin | 1883 | 1957 | Russian | Jewish composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gnessin |
Boris Anisfeld | Boris Izrailevich Anisfeld | 1878 | 1973 | Russian | painter and theater designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Anisfeld |
Hesya Helfman | Hesya Mirovna (Meerovna) Helfman | null | null | Russian | revolutionary member of Narodnaya Volya, who was implicated in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesya_Helfman |
Israel Tsvaygenbaum | Israel Tsvaygenbaum | 1961 | n/a | Russian | artist of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Tsvaygenbaum |
Moisey Ostrogorsky | Moisey Yakovlevich Ostrogorsky | 1854 | 1921 | Russian | politician, political scientist, historian, jurist and sociologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisey_Ostrogorsky |
Avraham Even-Shoshan | Avraham Even-Shoshan | 1906 | 1984 | Russian | Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary, one of the foremost dictionaries of the Hebrew language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Even-Shoshan |
Lilya Zilberstein | Lilya Efimovna Zilberstein | 1965 | n/a | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya_Zilberstein |
Semion Abugov | Semion Lvovich Abugov | 1877 | 1950 | Russian | painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, regarded as one of the leading art educator of the Leningrad school of painting, | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semion_Abugov |
Alexander von Stieglitz | Baron Alexander von Stieglitz | 1814 | 1884 | Russian | financier | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Stieglitz |
Ilya Reznik | Ilya Rahmielevich Reznik | 1938 | n/a | Russian | poet and songwriter, People's Artist of Russia (2003) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Reznik |
Keith Gessen | Keith A. Gessen | 1975 | n/a | Russian | novelist, journalist, and literary translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gessen |
Manya Shochat | Manya Shochat | 1880 | 1961 | Russian | Jewish politician and the "mother" of the collective settlement in Palestine, the forerunner of the kibbutz movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manya_Shochat |
Louis B. Boudin | Louis B. Boudin | 1874 | 1952 | Russian | Marxist theoretician, writer, politician, and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_B._Boudin |
Joseph Yasser | Joseph Yasser | 1893 | 1981 | Russian | organist, music theorist, author, and musicologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Yasser |
Thomas Seltzer (translator) | Thomas Seltzer | 1875 | 1943 | Russian | translator, editor and book publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seltzer_(translator) |
Maryus Vaysberg | Maryus Erikovich Vaysberg | 1971 | n/a | Russian | film director, producer, and screenwriter of Lithuanian and Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryus_Vaysberg |
Lyubov Streicher | Lyubov Lvovna Streicher | 1888 | 1958 | Russian | composer, teacher, and violinist, as well as a founding member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubov_Streicher |
Slava Tsukerman | Vladislav "Slava" Tsukerman | 1940 | n/a | Russian | film director of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Tsukerman |
Maria Grinberg | Maria Grinberg | 1908 | 1978 | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Grinberg |
Grigory Gershuni | Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni | null | null | Russian | revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Gershuni |
Josef Gusikov | Michal Josef Gusikov | 1806 | 1837 | Russian | Jewish klezmer who gave the first performances of klezmer music to West European concert audiences on his 'wood and straw instrument' | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Gusikov |
Jacob Murey | Jacob Isaacovich Murey | 1941 | n/a | Russian | chess player who holds the chess titles of Grandmaster (1987) and Correspondence Chess International Master (1970) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Murey |
Aleksandr Moiseyev (basketball) | Aleksandr Ivanovich Moiseyev | 1927 | 2003 | Russian | basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Moiseyev_(basketball) |
Boris Khaykin | Boris Emmanuilovich Khaykin | none | 1978 | Russian | Jewish conductor who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Khaykin |
Semyon Alapin | Semyon Zinovyevich Alapin | none | 1923 | Russian | chess player, openings analyst, and puzzle composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Alapin |
Mark Slonim | Mark Lvovich Slonim | 1894 | 1976 | Russian | politician, literary critic, scholar and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Slonim |
Jacques Gershkovitch | Jacques Gershkovitch | 1884 | 1953 | Russian | conductor and musician who became the first music director of the Portland Junior Symphony (now known as the Portland Youth Philharmonic), the first youth orchestra in the United States, based in Portland, Oregon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Gershkovitch |
Dina Rubina | Dina Ilyinichna Rubina | 1953 | n/a | Russian | prose writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Rubina |
Boris Trakhtenbrot | Boris (Boaz) Abramovich Trakhtenbrot | 1921 | 2016 | Russian | mathematician in logic, algorithms, theory of computation, and cybernetics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Trakhtenbrot |
Aleksey Igudesman | Aleksey Mikhailovich Igudesman | 1973 | n/a | Russian | violinist, composer, conductor, comedian and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Igudesman |
Alexander Sakharoff | Alexander Sakharoff | 1886 | 1963 | Russian | Empire dancer, teacher, and choreographer who emigrated to France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sakharoff |
Semyon Nadson | Semyon Yakovlevich Nadson | 1862 | 1887 | Russian | poet and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Nadson |
S. S. Koteliansky | Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky | 1880 | 1955 | Russian | translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._S._Koteliansky |
Boris Zakhoder | Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder | 1918 | 2000 | Russian | poet, translator and children's writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Zakhoder |
Benjamin Blumenfeld | Benjamin Blumenfeld | 1884 | 1947 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Blumenfeld |
Mikhael Gromov (mathematician) | Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov | 1943 | n/a | Russian | mathematician known for his work in geometry, analysis and group theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhael_Gromov_(mathematician) |
Anna Riwkin-Brick | Anna Riwkin-Brick or just Anna Riwkin | none | 1970 | Russian | photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Riwkin-Brick |
Vladimir Levenshtein | Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein | 1935 | 2017 | Russian | scientist who did research in information theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial design | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Levenshtein |
Igor Kostolevsky | Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky | 1948 | n/a | Russian | movie and stage actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kostolevsky |
Vladimir Resin | Vladimir Iosifovich Resin | 1936 | n/a | Russian | politician who was the acting mayor of Moscow, appointed by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to succeed Yury Luzhkov on 28 September 2010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Resin |
Yevgeny Roizman | Yevgeny Vadimovich Roizman | 1962 | n/a | Russian | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Roizman |
Elya Svei | Elya Svei | 1924 | 5684 | Russian | Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia together with Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, and was internationally known for his incisive, brilliant, and clear shiurim (lectures), and his ability to offer sage advice to thousands of Jews worldwide | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elya_Svei |
Tamara Shayne | Tamara Shayne | 1902 | 1983 | Russian | actress and long-time resident in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Shayne |
Pavel Kogan (conductor) | Pavel Leonidovich Kogan | 1952 | n/a | Russian | violinist and conductor who currently leads the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Kogan_(conductor) |
Fabien Sevitzky | Fabien Sevitzky | 1891 | 1967 | Russian | conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabien_Sevitzky |
Anatoly Marienhof | Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof | null | null | Russian | poet, novelist and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Marienhof |
Yulianna Avdeeva | Yulianna Andreevna Avdeeva | 1985 | n/a | Russian | concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulianna_Avdeeva |
Marc Sorkin | Marc Sorkin or Mark Sorkin | 1902 | 1986 | Russian | film editor and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Sorkin |
Yevgeny Rein | Yevgeny Borisovich Rein | 1935 | n/a | Russian | poet and writer, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Rein |
Lena Hades | Lena Alekseevna Hades | 1959 | n/a | Russian | artist, writer and art theorist of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Hades |
Abram Besicovitch | Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (or Besikovitch) | 1891 | 1970 | Russian | mathematician, who worked mainly in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Besicovitch |
Boris Kamkov | Boris Davidovich Kamkov | 1885 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary, a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and a member of the Council of People's Commissars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kamkov |
Charles Rappoport | Charles Rappoport | 1865 | 1941 | Russian | militant communist politician, journalist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rappoport |
Jasmin (singer) | Sara Lvovna Shor | 1977 | n/a | Russian | pop singer, actress, model, and TV presenter, designer, of Mountain Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmin_(singer) |
Mikhail Gasparov | Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov | 1935 | 2005 | Russian | philologist and translator, renowned for his studies in classical philology and the history of versification, and a member of the informal Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gasparov |
Alexander Kushner | Alexander Semyonovich Kushner | 1936 | n/a | Russian | poet from Saint Petersburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kushner |
Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova | Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova | none | 1937 | Russian | Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and the younger sister of Vladimir Lenin and Anna Ulyanova | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ilyinichna_Ulyanova |
Ossip Runitsch | Ossip Iliych Runitsch | 1889 | 1947 | Russian | Empire silent film actor, producer and stage director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Runitsch |
Pavel Deobald | Pavel Aleksandrovich Deobald | 1990 | n/a | Russian | professional football player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Deobald |
Reuben Brainin | Reuben ben Mordecai Brainin | 1862 | 1939 | Russian | Jewish publicist, biographer and literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Brainin |
Ivan Dykhovichny | Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny | 1947 | 2009 | Russian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Dykhovichny |
César Tiempo | César Tiempo | 1906 | n/a | Russian | Empire-born screenwriter of Argentine cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Tiempo |
Modest Stein | Modest Stein | 1871 | 1958 | Russian | illustrator and close associate of the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Stein |
Sergei Efron | Sergei Yakovlevich Efron | 1893 | 1941 | Russian | Empire poet, officer of White Army and husband of Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Efron |
Zinaida Volkova | Zinaida Lvovna Volkova | 1901 | 1933 | Russian | Marxist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinaida_Volkova |
Dov Schwartzman | Dov Schwartzman | 1921 | 2011 | Russian | Haredi Jewish rabbi, educator, Talmudic scholar, and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Bais Hatalmud, which he founded in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem and led for over 40 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Schwartzman |
Peter Wiernik | Peter Wiernik | 1865 | 1936 | Russian | Jewish Yiddish journalist, newspaper editor, writer and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wiernik |
Jack Shaindlin | Jack Shaindlin | 1909 | 1978 | Russian | musician, composer, arranger, conductor, and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Shaindlin |
Aaron Avshalomov | Aaron Avshalomov | 1894 | 1965 | Russian | Jewish composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Avshalomov |
Yehuda Pen | Yehuda Pen | 1854 | 1937 | Russian | Jewish painter and art teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Pen |
Yuly Aykhenvald | Yuly Isayevich Aykhenvald, Aikhenvald | 1872 | 1928 | Russian | Jewish literary critic who developed a native brand of Aestheticism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuly_Aykhenvald |
Alexander Goldstein | Alexander Goldstein | 1948 | n/a | Russian | music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldstein |
Misha Verbitsky | Misha Verbitsky | 1969 | n/a | Russian | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Verbitsky |
Yuri Stern | Yuri Stern | 1949 | 2007 | Russian | politician and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Stern |
Grigory Ginzburg | Grigory Romanovich Ginzburg | 1904 | 1961 | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Ginzburg |
Mikhail Gershenzon | Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon | 1925 | n/a | Russian | scholar, essayist and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gershenzon |
Victor Kahn | Victor Kahn | 1889 | 1971 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kahn |
Mikhail Tanich | Mikhail Isaievich Tanich (Tankhilevich) | 1923 | 2008 | Russian | popular song lyrics writer, a laureate of the Interior Ministry Award (1997), a laureate of the jubilee contest The Song of the Year devoted to the 25th anniversary of that television program, a laureate of nearly all the annual festivals The Song of the Year, and a laureate of the Ovation National Music Award (1997) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tanich |
Valentin Yudashkin | Valentin Abramovich Yudashkin | 1963 | n/a | Russian | fashion designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Yudashkin |
Jacques Roitfeld | Jacques Roitfeld | 1889 | 1999 | Russian | film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Roitfeld |
Sesto Pals | Sesto Pals, pen name of Simion (or Semion) Șestopali | null | null | Russian | writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesto_Pals |
Alexander Dvorkin | Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin | 1955 | n/a | Russian | anti-cult activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dvorkin |
Zinovy Peshkov | Zinovy Alekseyevich Peshkov | 1884 | 1966 | Russian | general and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinovy_Peshkov |
Sholem Schwarzbard | Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard | 1886 | 1938 | Russian | Jewish-born French Yiddish poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Schwarzbard |
Eugene Yelchin | Eugene Yelchin | 1956 | n/a | Russian | artist best known as an illustrator and writer of books for children | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Yelchin |
Natascha Artin Brunswick | Natascha Artin Brunswick, née Jasny | 1909 | 2003 | Russian | mathematician and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Artin_Brunswick |
Lev Vaidman | Lev Vaidman | 1955 | n/a | Russian | physicist and Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Vaidman |
Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov | Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov | none | 1943 | Russian | physician and revolutionary, the younger brother of Aleksandr Ulyanov and Vladimir Lenin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Ilyich_Ulyanov |
Yana Gorskaya | Yana Gorskaya | null | null | Russian | film editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Gorskaya |
Lev Sternberg | Lev (Chaim-Leib) Yakovlevich Sternberg | n/a | 1927 | Russian | ethnographer of Jewish origin who from 1889 to 1897 studied the Nivkhs (Gilyaks), Oroks, and Ainu on Sakhalin and in Siberia for the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Sternberg |
Ljuba Kristol | Ljuba Danielovna Kristol | 1944 | n/a | Russian | chess player who holds the ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster (LGM) and the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljuba_Kristol |
Morris Michtom | Morris Michtom | 1870 | 1938 | Russian | businessman and inventor who, with his wife Rose, came up with the idea for the teddy bear in 1902 around the same time as Richard Steiff in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Michtom |
Yefim Chulak | Yefim Aronovich Chulak | 1948 | n/a | Russian | former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yefim_Chulak |
Leonid Stolovich | Leonid Naumovich Stolovich | 1929 | 2013 | Russian | philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966) and professor (1967) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Stolovich |
Alexandre Prigogine | Alexandre Romanovich Prigogine | 1913 | 1991 | Russian | Empire-born mineralogist and ornithologist who worked in Belgium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Prigogine |
Mikhail Kopelman | Mikhail Kopelman | null | null | Russian | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kopelman |
Raïssa Maritain | Raïssa Maritain | 1883 | 1960 | Russian | poet and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raïssa_Maritain |
Boris Holban | Boris Holban | 1908 | 2004 | Russian | Franco-Romanian communist known for his role in the French Resistance as the leader of FTP-MOI group in Paris and for l’Affaire Manouchian controversy of the 1980s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Holban |
Arnold Fruchtenbaum | Arnold Genekowitsch Fruchtenbaum | 1943 | n/a | Russian | theologian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Fruchtenbaum |
Anton Nossik | Anton Borisovich Nossik | 1966 | 2017 | Russian | journalist, social activist and blogger (10th place in RuNet according to Yandex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Nossik |
Ania Dorfmann | Ania Dorfmann | 1899 | 1984 | Russian | pianist and teacher, who taught at the Juilliard School in New York for many years and was the first of only a very few women pianists to play or record under Arturo Toscanini | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ania_Dorfmann |
Zinaida Vengerova | Zinaida Vengerova | 1867 | 1941 | Russian | literary critic and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinaida_Vengerova |
Charles Solomon (racketeer) | Charles "King" Solomon | 1884 | 1933 | Russian | mob boss who controlled Boston's bootlegging, narcotics, and illegal gambling during the Prohibition era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Solomon_(racketeer) |
Alexander Brener | Alexander Davidovich Brener | 1957 | n/a | Russian | performance artist and a self-described political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Brener |
Lydia Mordkovitch | Lydia Mordkovitch | 1944 | 2014 | Russian | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Mordkovitch |
Yuliya Veysberg | Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg | null | null | Russian | music critic and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya_Veysberg |
Naoum Blinder | Naoum Blinder | 1889 | 1965 | Russian | virtuoso violinist and teacher, born in Yevpatoria (then Russian Empire, now Ukraine) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoum_Blinder |
Alexander Lubotsky | Alexander "Sasha" Lubotsky | 1956 | n/a | Russian | linguist and Indologist who specializes in the study of Indo-Iranian languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lubotsky |
Viktor Zinger | Viktor Aleksandrovich Zinger | 1941 | 2013 | Russian | ice hockey goaltender | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zinger |
Dmitry Gurevich | Dmitry Gurevich | 1956 | n/a | Russian | chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Gurevich |
Alexander Goldfarb (biologist) | Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb | 1947 | n/a | Russian | microbiologist, activist, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldfarb_(biologist) |
Celia Dropkin | Celia Dropkin | none | 1956 | Russian | Yiddish poet, writer, and artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Dropkin |
Lillian Rosanoff Lieber | Lillian Rosanoff Lieber | 1886 | 1986 | Russian | mathematician and popular author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Rosanoff_Lieber |
Marie Goldsmith | Marie Isidorovna Goldsmith | 1871 | 1933 | Russian | Jewish anarchist and collaborator of Peter Kropotkin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Goldsmith |
Linda (singer) | Svetlana Lvovna Geiman | 1975 | n/a | Russian | singer and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(singer) |
Lydia Pasternak Slater | Lydia Leonidovna Pasternak | 1902 | 1989 | Russian | research chemist, poet and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Pasternak_Slater |
Dmitry Astrakhan | Dmitry Hananovich Astrakhan | 1957 | n/a | Russian | film director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Astrakhan |
Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan | Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan | 1902 | 1980 | Russian | painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Lvovich_Kaplan |
Victor Ginzburg | Victor Ginzburg | 1957 | n/a | Russian | mathematician who works in representation theory and in noncommutative geometry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ginzburg |
Semen Dvoirys | Semen Isaakovich Dvoirys | 1958 | n/a | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen_Dvoirys |
Alexander Braginsky | Alexander Iosifovich Braginsky | 1944 | n/a | Russian | pianist and pedagogue, currently living in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Braginsky |
Morris Markin | Morris Markin | 1893 | 1970 | Russian | businessman who founded the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company (which would later become the Checker Motors Corporation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Markin |
Arkady Arkanov | Arkady Mikhailovich Arkanov | 1933 | 2015 | Russian | writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Arkanov |
Leonid Kvinikhidze | Leonid Aleksandrovich Kvinihidze | 1937 | 2018 | Russian | screenwriter and film director His father, Aleksandr Faintsimmer, was also a film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kvinikhidze |
Noë Bloch | Noë Bloch | 1875 | 1937 | Russian | film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noë_Bloch |
Alex B. Novikoff | Alex Benjamin Novikoff | null | null | Russian | Empire-born American biologist who is recognized for his pioneering works in the discoveries of cell organelles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_B._Novikoff |
John Barsha | John F. Barsha | 1898 | 1976 | Russian | professional American football fullback who played for the Rochester Jeffersons of the American Professional Football Association (APFA) and the Syracuse Pros, who may or may not have been members of the same league | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barsha |
Natalya Sats | Natalya Il'inichna Sats | 1903 | 1993 | Russian | stage director who ran theaters for children for many years, including the Moscow Musical Theater for Children, now named after her | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya_Sats |
Oda Slobodskaya | Oda Slobodskaya | 1888 | 1970 | Russian | soprano who became a British citizen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_Slobodskaya |
Evgeny Margulis | Evgeny Shulimovich Margulis | 1955 | n/a | Russian | rock and blues musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Margulis |
Boris Hambourg | Boris Hambourg | none | 1954 | Russian | cellist who settled in Toronto, Ontario, and made his career in the United States, Canada, England and Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hambourg |
Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky | Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky | 1945 | n/a | Russian | composer, conductor and classical pianist who lives in Switzerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Rabinovitch-Barakovsky |
Arsen Naydyonov | Arseny Yudilyevich Naydyonov | 1941 | 2010 | Russian | professional football coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsen_Naydyonov |
Samuil Shatunovsky | Samuil Osipovich Shatunovsky | 1859 | 1929 | Russian | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuil_Shatunovsky |
Samuel Maykapar | Samuel Moiseyevich Maykapar | 1867 | 1938 | Russian | romantic composer, pianist, professor of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and author of a number of piano practice pieces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maykapar |
Alexander Melamid | Alexander Melamid | 1945 | n/a | Russian | Conceptualist and performance artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Melamid |
Elena Bashkirova | Elena Dmitrievna Bashkirova | 1958 | n/a | Russian | pianist and musical director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Bashkirova |
David Shrayer-Petrov | David Shrayer-Petrov | null | null | Russian | novelist, poet, memoirist, translator and medical scientist best known for his novel about refuseniks, Doctor Levitin, his poetry and fiction about Russian Jewish identity and his memoirs about the Soviet literary scene in the late 1950s-1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shrayer-Petrov |
J. B. S. Hardman | J. B. S. Hardman | 1882 | 1968 | Russian | political activist, radical journalist, and trade union functionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Hardman |
Martin E. Segal | Martin Eli Segal | 1916 | 2012 | Russian | Empire-born American businessman who co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 with two other Lincoln Center executives, William F. May and Schuyler G. Chapin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_E._Segal |
Alexander Drankov | Alexander Osipovich Drankov | 1886 | 1949 | Russian | Empire and Soviet photographer, cameraman, film producer, and one of the pioneers of the Russian pre-revolutionary cinematography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Drankov |
Teresa Feoderovna Ries | Teresa Feoderovna Ries | 1874 | 1956 | Russian | sculptor and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Feoderovna_Ries |
Maksim Rayevsky | Maksim Rayevsky | 1931 | n/a | Russian | Jewish anarcho-syndicalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Rayevsky |
Yuri Lyapkin | Yuri Evgenievich Lyapkin | 1945 | n/a | Russian | retired ice hockey defenceman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Lyapkin |
Liudmila Belavenets | Liudmila Sergeyevna Belavenets | 1940 | 2021 | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liudmila_Belavenets |
Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner | Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner | 1871 | 1935 | Russian | Jewish Empire-born bacteriologist and physician, known for her research on tuberculosis and public health | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Rabinowitsch-Kempner |
Toscha Seidel | Toscha Seidel | 1899 | 1962 | Russian | violin virtuoso | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toscha_Seidel |
Zvee Scooler | Zvee Scooler | 1899 | 1985 | Russian | actor and radio commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvee_Scooler |
Yekaterina Chemberdzhi | Yekaterina Chemberdzhi , also Katia Tchemberdji (nickname) | null | null | Russian | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Chemberdzhi |
Zavel Kwartin | Zevulun "Zavel" Kwartin | 1874 | 1952 | Russian | chazzan (cantor) and composer, a contemporary of Mordechai Hershman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavel_Kwartin |
Boris Brutskus | Boris (Ber) Davydovich Brutskus | null | null | Russian | economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Brutskus |
Vladimir Mazya | Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya | 1937 | n/a | Russian | mathematician, hailed as "one of the most distinguished analysts of our time" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mazya |
Jascha Spivakovsky | Jascha Spivakovsky | 1896 | 1970 | Russian | Empire-born Australian piano virtuoso of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Spivakovsky |
Daniel Genis | Daniel Genis | 1978 | n/a | Russian | journalist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Genis |
Mike Varshavski | Mikhail "Mike" Varshavski, D.O. | 1989 | n/a | Russian | internet celebrity and family medicine physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Varshavski |
Abel Pann | Abel Pann | 1883 | 1963 | Russian | Jewish painter and print-maker who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under Boris Schatz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Pann |
Ben-Zion (artist) | Ben-Zion | 1897 | 1987 | Russian | painter, printmaker, sculptor, educator, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Zion_(artist) |
Fanya Baron | Fanya Anisimovna Baron | 1887 | 1921 | Russian | anarchist revolutionary who lived in America from 1911 to 1917 when she returned to her homeland to build a post-revolutionary society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanya_Baron |
Pak Noja | Vladimir Tikhonov | 1973 | n/a | Russian | academic of Korean studies, and columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Noja |
Zhanna Nemtsova | Zhanna Borisovna Nemtsova | 1984 | n/a | Russian | journalist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhanna_Nemtsova |
Max Penson | Max Zakharovich Penson | 1893 | 1959 | Russian | Jewish photojournalist and photographer of the Soviet Union noted for his photographs of Uzbekistan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Penson |
David Roitman | David Roitman | 1884 | 1943 | Russian | hazzan and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roitman |
Roman Kartsev | Roman Andreyevich Kartsev | null | null | Russian | entertainer of stage, theater and cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Kartsev |
Ilya Fondaminsky | Ilya Isidorovich Fondaminsky | 1880 | 1942 | Russian | author (writing under the pseudonym Bunakov) and political activist, in 1910s one of the leaders of the Esers party, in 1917 a senior member of the Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Fondaminsky |
Valentina Serova (composer) | Valentina Semyonova Serova | 1846 | 1924 | Russian | composer of German-Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Serova_(composer) |
Abraham Plessner | Abraham Plessner | 1900 | 1961 | Russian | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Plessner |
Leonid Gozman | Leonid Yakovlevich Gozman | 1950 | n/a | Russian | politician and president of the all-Russian public movement Union of Right Forces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Gozman |
Akim Volynsky | Akim Lvovich Volynsky | 1861 | 1926 | Russian | literary (later theatre and ballet) critic and historian, one of the early ideologists of the Russian Modernism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akim_Volynsky |
Vera Broido | Vera Broido | 1907 | 2004 | Russian | writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution, as one who grew up through it and lost her mother to its aftermath | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Broido |
Georgy Satarov | Georgy Alexandrovich Satarov | 1947 | n/a | Russian | mathematician, politician, political scientist and a former aide to Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1994–1997) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Satarov |
Ariadna Scriabina | Ariadna Aleksandrovna Scriabina | 1905 | 1944 | Russian | poet and activist of the French Resistance, who co-founded the Zionist resistance group Armée Juive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadna_Scriabina |
Samuel Polyakov | Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov | null | null | Russian | businessman, informally known as the "most famous railroad king" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Polyakov |
David Rudman (wrestler) | David Rudman | 1943 | 2022 | Russian | wrestler, Sambo world champion, and judo European champion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rudman_(wrestler) |
Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal | Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal | 1945 | n/a | Russian | physicist and entrepreneur, formerly at Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Space Research Institute, Princeton University, ViewPoint Corp, Magic Works LLC, and now at Migdal Research LLC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Arkadyevich_Migdal |
Sheea Herschorn | Sheea Halevy Herschorn | 1893 | 1969 | Russian | Jewish communal leader and posek, who served as Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1951 until 1961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheea_Herschorn |
Gerson Rosenzweig | Gerson Rosenzweig | 1861 | 1914 | Russian | editor, author, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerson_Rosenzweig |
Louis Filler | Louis Filler | 1911 | 1998 | Russian | Empire-born American teacher and a widely published scholar specializing in American studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Filler |
Alexander Plisetski | Alexander Mikhailovich Plisetski | 1931 | 1985 | Russian | ballet master and choreographer and a younger brother of the famous Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Plisetski |
Bill Miller (impresario) | Bill Miller | 1904 | 2002 | Russian | impresario, best known for serving as the entertainment director for several large casino hotels in Las Vegas from the 1950s to the 1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Miller_(impresario) |
Leonid Kannegisser | Leonid Joakimovich Kannegisser | null | null | Russian | Empire poet and military cadet, known for assassinating Moisei Uritsky, chief of the Cheka in Petrograd, on 17 August 1918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kannegisser |
Rachel Messerer | Rachel Mikhailovna Messerer-Plisetskaya | 1902 | 1993 | Russian | silent film and theatre actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Messerer |
Lev Rubinstein | Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein | null | null | Russian | poet, essayist, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Rubinstein |
Matest M. Agrest | Mates (Matest) Mendelevich Agrest | 1915 | 2005 | Russian | Empire-born mathematician and a proponent of the ancient astronaut theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matest_M._Agrest |
Nahum Slouschz | Nahum Slouschz | 1872 | 1966 | Russian | writer, translator and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Slouschz |
Mikhail Veller | Mikhail Iosifovich Veller | 1948 | n/a | Russian | writer of Ukrainian Jewish extraction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Veller |
Vadim Manzon | Vadim Arkadyevich Manzon | 1994 | n/a | Russian | football forward | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Manzon |
Masha Katz | Maria Lvovna "Masha" Katz | 1973 | n/a | Russian | singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masha_Katz |
Joseph Chaikov | Joseph Moisevich Chaikov | 1888 | 1979 | Russian | Imperial and Soviet Russian sculptor, graphic designer and teacher of Ukrainian Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chaikov |
Alexander Vinnikov | Alexander Aronovich Vinnikov | 1955 | n/a | Russian | politician and formerly the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vinnikov |
Leon Isserlis | Leon Isserlis | 1881 | 1966 | Russian | statistician known for his work on the exact distribution of sample moments, including Isserlis’ theorem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Isserlis |
Vladimir Patkin | Vladimir Leonidovich Patkin | 1945 | n/a | Russian | former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Patkin |
Leonid Yuzefovich | Leonid Abramovich Yuzefovich | 1947 | n/a | Russian | writer known for the series of crime fiction stories taking place in pre-Revolution Russian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Yuzefovich |
Kirill Malyarov | Kirill Anatolyevich Malyarov | 1997 | n/a | Russian | football player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Malyarov |
Simeon Strunsky | Simeon Strunsky | 1879 | 1948 | Russian | Jewish essayist and editorialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Strunsky |
Alla Gerber | Alla Yefremovna Gerber | 1932 | n/a | Russian | politician, journalist and film critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_Gerber |
Galina Dzhugashvili | Galina Yakovlevna Dzhugashvili | 1938 | 2007 | Russian | translator of French | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galina_Dzhugashvili |
Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm | Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm | 1859 | 1939 | Russian | sculptor active in France and Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Bernhard_Bernstamm |
Alexander Kibrik | Alexander Kibrik | 1939 | 2012 | Russian | linguist, doctor of philology and the head of the department of theoretical and applied linguistics of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kibrik |
Henri Reznik | Henri Markovich Reznik | 1938 | n/a | Russian | prominent lawyer, former criminal investigator and criminologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Reznik |
Valery Sigalevitch | Valery Sigalevitch | 1950 | n/a | Russian | classical concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Sigalevitch |
Abram Model | Abram Yakovlevich Model | 1896 | 1976 | Russian | chess master, although he had his master title taken away by the Soviet chess authorities due to lack of results | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Model |
Solomon Gotthilf | Solomon Borisovich Gotthilf | 1903 | 1967 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Gotthilf |
Boris Mints | Boris Iosifovich Mints | 1958 | n/a | Russian | billionaire businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Mints |
Dmitri Kogan | Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan | 1978 | 2017 | Russian | violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Kogan |
Yente Serdatzky | Yente Serdatzky | 1877 | 1962 | Russian | Yiddish-language writer of short fiction and plays, active in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yente_Serdatzky |
Susman Kiselgof | Susman (Zinoviy Aronovich) Kiselgof | 1878 | 1939 | Russian | Jewish folksong collector and pedagogue associated with the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susman_Kiselgof |
Evgeny Gomelsky | Evgeny Yakovlevich Gomelsky | 1938 | n/a | Russian | former professional basketball player and coach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Gomelsky |
Leo Zeitlin | Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin | 1884 | 1930 | Russian | Jewish composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Zeitlin |
Osip Yermansky | Osip Arkadyevich Yermansky | 1867 | 1941 | Russian | Social Democratic political figure, economic theorist, pamphleteer, and memoirist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Yermansky |
Maxim Vinaver | Maxim Moissejewitsch Vinaver | 1863 | 1926 | Russian | lawyer, politician and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Vinaver |
Dajos Béla | Leon Golzmann or as he | 1897 | 1978 | Russian | jazz violinist and bandleader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajos_Béla |
Isaac Mayer Dick | Isaac Mayer Dick | 1807 | 1893 | Russian | Hebraist, Yiddishist, and novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Mayer_Dick |
Anri Volokhonsky | Anri Girshevich Volokhonsky | 1936 | 2017 | Russian | poet and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anri_Volokhonsky |
Grigoriy Oster | Grigoriy Bentsionovich Oster | 1947 | n/a | Russian | author and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigoriy_Oster |
Alexander Gutman | Alexander Ilyich Gutman | 1945 | 2016 | Russian | film director of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gutman |
Semyon Yushkevich | Semyon Solomonovich Yushkevich | 1868 | 1927 | Russian | language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Yushkevich |
Kama Ginkas | Kama Ginkas | 1941 | n/a | Russian | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Ginkas |
Harry Steppe | Harry Steppe | null | null | Russian | Jewish-American actor, musical comedy performer, headliner comedian, writer, librettist, director and producer, who toured North America working in Vaudeville and Burlesque | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Steppe |
Lev Lunts | Lev Natanovich Lunts | 1901 | 1924 | Russian | playwright, proser and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Lunts |
Vlady Kibalchich Rusakov | Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich Rusakov | 1920 | 2005 | Russian | painter, known simply as "Vlady" in Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlady_Kibalchich_Rusakov |
Lev Levanda | Lev Levanda | 1835 | 1888 | Russian | author, belletrist, and publicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Levanda |
Elias Tcherikower | Elias Tcherikower | 1881 | 1943 | Russian | Jewish historian of Judaism or the Jewish people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Tcherikower |
Revol Bunin | Revol Samuilovich Bunin | 1924 | 1976 | Russian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revol_Bunin |
Mordecai Seter | Mordecai Seter | 1916 | 1994 | Russian | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Seter |
Anatol Kagan | Anatol Kagan | 1913 | 2009 | Russian | Empire-born Australian architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Kagan |
Lara Vapnyar | Lara Vapnyar | 1975 | n/a | Russian | author currently living in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Vapnyar |
Olga Freidenberg | Olga Freidenberg | 1890 | 1955 | Russian | classical philologist, one of the pioneers of cultural studies in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Freidenberg |
Elena Kuschnerova | Elena Kuschnerova | 1959 | n/a | Russian | classical pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kuschnerova |
Bessie Thomashefsky | Bessie Thomashefsky | 1873 | 1962 | Russian | Jewish singer, actress and comedian, a star in Yiddish theater beginning in the 1890s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Thomashefsky |
Bernard Besman | Bernard Besman | 1912 | 2003 | Russian | record producer and distributor who established Sensation Records, an early independent record label in Detroit, Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Besman |
Rafael Grugman | Rafael Abramovich Grugman | 1948 | n/a | Russian | writer, journalist, engineer, programmer and college educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Grugman |
Ilya Oleynikov | Ilya Lvovich Oleynikov | 1947 | 2012 | Russian | comic actor and television personality, TEFI winner (1996, 2001), People's Artist of Russia (2001) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Oleynikov |
Igor Guberman | Igor Mironovich Guberman | 1936 | n/a | Russian | writer and poet of Jewish ancestry; since 1988 lives in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Guberman |
Eliezer Steinman | Eliezer Steinman | 1892 | 1970 | Russian | writer, journalist and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Steinman |
Zarakh Iliev | Zarakh Iliev | 1966 | n/a | Russian | billionaire property developer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarakh_Iliev |
Osip Aptekman | Osip Vasilyevich Aptekman | null | null | Russian | revolutionary, member of the Land and Liberty, and one of the founders of the Black Repartition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Aptekman |
Lev Pulver | Lev Mikhaylovich Pulver | null | null | Russian | Jewish musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Pulver |
Samuil Vainshtein | Samuil Osipovich Vainshtein | 1894 | 1942 | Russian | chess master, organizer, publisher and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuil_Vainshtein |
Nelli Shkolnikova | Nelli Efimovna Shkolnikova | 1928 | 2010 | Russian | Jewish classical violinist who spent many years teaching in Australia and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelli_Shkolnikova |
Alexander Kosolapov | Alexander Kosolapov | 1943 | n/a | Russian | sculptor and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kosolapov |
Uri Nissan Gnessin | Uri Nissan Gnessin | 1879 | 1913 | Russian | Jewish writer and a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Nissan_Gnessin |
Yakov Kasman | Yakov Kasman | 1967 | n/a | Russian | classical pianist, professor of piano, and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Kasman |
Anatoly Naiman | Anatoly Genrikhovich Naiman | 1936 | 2022 | Russian | poet, translator and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Naiman |
Igor Usminskiy | Igor Vladimirovich Usminskiy | 1977 | n/a | Russian | former professional footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Usminskiy |
George Sachs | George Sachs | 1896 | 1960 | Russian | metallurgist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sachs |
Arkady Ukupnik | Arkady Semyonovich Ukupnik | 1953 | n/a | Russian | composer, pop singer, actor, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Ukupnik |
Evgeny Mogilevsky | Evgeny Mogilevsky | 1945 | n/a | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Mogilevsky |
N. Koppelman | N. Kopelman (Koppelman) | 1881 | 1944 | Russian | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Koppelman |
Boris Kogan | Boris Markovich Kogan | 1940 | 1993 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kogan |
Herman Pines | Herman Pines | 1902 | 1996 | Russian | chemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Pines |
Anna Pletnyova | Anna Yuryevna Pletnyova | 1977 | n/a | Russian | singer, composer, and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Pletnyova |
Abe Elenkrig | Abraham "Abe" Elenkrig | 1878 | 1965 | Russian | klezmer bandleader, Cornet player, barber and recording artist of the early twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Elenkrig |
Arkadiy Abramovich | Arkadiy Romanovich Abramovich | 1993 | n/a | Russian | businessman and the heir to Roman Abramovich, Israeli-Russian multi-billionaire investor, politician and owner of Chelsea F.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadiy_Abramovich |
Victor Yampolsky | Victor Yampolsky | 1942 | n/a | Russian | conductor and the son of pianist Vladimir Yampolsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Yampolsky |
Julius Isserlis | Julius Isserlis | null | null | Russian | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Isserlis |
Lev Loseff | Lev Loseff | 1937 | 2009 | Russian | poet, literary critic, essayist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Loseff |
Grégoire Michonze | Grégoire Michonze | 1902 | 1982 | Russian | painter, born in 1902 in Kishinev (Bessarabia), Russian Empire (now Republic of Moldova) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grégoire_Michonze |
Löb Nevakhovich | Löb Nevakhovich, or Lev Nikolayevich | 1776 | 1778 | Russian | writer and one of the first maskilim in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Löb_Nevakhovich |
Mikhail Press | Mikhail (Moisej) Isaakovich Press | 1871 | 1938 | Russian | violinist, conductor and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Press |
Louis Schweitzer (philanthropist) | Louis Schweitzer | 1899 | 1971 | Russian | United States paper industrialist and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Schweitzer_(philanthropist) |
Vladimir Medem | Vladimir Davidovich Medem, né Grinberg | 1879 | 1923 | Russian | Jewish politician and ideologue of the Jewish Labour Bund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Medem |
Idel Ianchelevici | Idel Ianchelevici | 1909 | 1994 | Russian | sculptor and draughtsman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idel_Ianchelevici |
Tibor Szamuely (historian) | Tibor Szamuely | 1925 | 1972 | Russian | Jewish historian and polemicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Szamuely_(historian) |
Anna Tkach | Anna Tkach | 1975 | n/a | Russian | retired-born Israeli sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Tkach |
Saul Dushman | Saul Dushman | 1883 | 1954 | Russian | physical chemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Dushman |
Alexander Halprin | Alexander Halprin | 1868 | 1921 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Halprin |
Leonid Polterovich | Leonid Polterovich | 1963 | n/a | Russian | mathematician at Tel Aviv University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Polterovich |
Alexander Tyshler | Alexander Grigoryevich Tyshler | 1898 | 1980 | Russian | modernist painter, in particular, notable as a stage designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tyshler |
Vitaly Vulf | Vitaly Yakovlevich Vulf | 1930 | 2011 | Russian | art, drama, film critic, literary critic, translator, TV and radio broadcaster and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Vulf |
Arkady Kots | Arkady Yakovlevich Kots | 1872 | 1943 | Russian | socialist poet of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Kots |
Semyon Lipkin | Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin | null | null | Russian | writer, poet, and literary translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Lipkin |
Helene Minkin | Helene Minkin | 1873 | 1954 | Russian | Jewish anarchist immigrant who settled in New York City and had close ties with three of the U.S. anarchist movement's most notable figures – Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Johann Most – Minkin's common-law husband | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Minkin |
Lidiya Yankovskaya | Lidiya Yankovskaya | 1986 | n/a | Russian | opera and symphonic conductor and the Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidiya_Yankovskaya |
Roman Rotenberg | Roman Borisovich Rotenberg | 1981 | n/a | Russian | entrepreneur, manager and ice hockey executive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Rotenberg |
Ariadna Èfron | Ariadna Sergeyevna Èfron | 1975 | n/a | Russian | translator of prose and poetry, memoirist, artist, art critic, poet (her original poems, except for those written in childhood, were not printed during her lifetime); she was a daughter of Sergei Èfron and Marina Tsvetaeva | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadna_Èfron |
Alter Esselin | Alter Esselin | null | null | Russian | poet who wrote in the Yiddish language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_Esselin |
Israel Wachser | Israel Wachser | 1892 | 1919 | Russian | writer of Yiddish and Hebrew short stories and children's literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Wachser |
Sergey Taboritsky | Sergey Vladimirovich Taboritsky | 1897 | 1980 | Russian | ultranationalist and monarchist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Taboritsky |
Miriam Mosessohn | Miriam Markel-Mosessohn | 1839 | 1920 | Russian | author and translator who wrote in Hebrew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Mosessohn |
Maxim Kantor | Maxim Karlovich Kantor | 1957 | n/a | Russian | painter, writer, essayist and art historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Kantor |
Elena Shirman | Elena Mihailovna Shirman | 1908 | 1942 | Russian | Jewish poet killed in the Second World War by the Nazis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Shirman |
Abraham Kahana | Abraham Kahana | 1874 | 1946 | Russian | Biblical scholar, biographer, historian, translator, and librarian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Kahana |
Evgeniya Brik | Evgeniya Brik | null | null | Russian | actress, best known for playing Kalinka in the Belgian television series Matroesjka's | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeniya_Brik |
Eugene M. Kulischer | Eugene M. Kulischer | 1881 | 1956 | Russian | sociologist; an authority on demography, migration and manpower; and an expert on Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_M._Kulischer |
Shlomo Poliakov | Shlomo Poliakov | null | null | Russian | Jewish footballer, who played for Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Petah Tikva and later as manager for several Hapoel clubs and for Hapoel Tel Aviv's youth team | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Poliakov |
Lazar Polyakov | Lazar Solomonovich Polyakov | 1843 | 1914 | Russian | Jewish entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Polyakov |
Gregory Freiman | Gregory Abelevich Freiman | 1926 | n/a | Russian | mathematician known for his work in additive number theory, in particular, for proving Freiman's theorem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Freiman |
Nahum Korzhavin | Nahum (Naum) Moiseyevich Korzhavin | 1925 | 2018 | Russian | poet of Jewish descent, a dissident and emigrant who moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1973 and lived there 43 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Korzhavin |
Osip Braz | Osip Emmanuilovich Braz | 1873 | 1936 | Russian | Jewish realist painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Braz |
Simon Soloveychik | Simon L'vovich Soloveychik | 1930 | 1996 | Russian | publicist, educator and social philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Soloveychik |
Grisha Bruskin | Grisha Bruskin | 1945 | n/a | Russian | artist known as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisha_Bruskin |
Aglaya Tarasova | Aglaya Viktorovna Tarasova | 1994 | n/a | Russian | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglaya_Tarasova |
Sandra Droucker | Sandra Droucker | 1875 | 1944 | Russian | concert pianist, composer and music pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Droucker |
Aaron Bodansky | Aaron Bodansky | 1887 | 1960 | Russian | biochemist remembered for describing the Bodansky unit in the measurement of alkaline phosphatase in blood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bodansky |
Alexander Brod | Alexander Semenovich Brod | 1969 | n/a | Russian | human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Brod |
David Ashkenazi | David Vladimirovitch Ashkenazi | 1915 | 1997 | Russian | pianist, accompanist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ashkenazi |
Arnold Volpe | Arnold Volpe | 1869 | 1940 | Russian | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Volpe |
Abraham Zinger | Abraham Zinger | 1864 | 1920 | Russian | Jewish author, feuilletonist, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Zinger |
Lev Schlossberg | Lev Markovich Schlossberg | 1963 | n/a | Russian | politician, human rights activist, journalist, chairman of the Pskov Oblast branch of Yabloko, and a member of its federal political committee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Schlossberg |
Eugene Levich | Eugene V. (Yevgeny) Levich | null | null | Russian | physicist known for work on the Bose–Einstein condensate and 3D optical data storage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Levich |
Ilya M. Sobol | Ilya Meyerovich Sobol | 1926 | n/a | Russian | mathematician of Lithuanian Jewish origin, known for his work on Monte Carlo methods | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_M._Sobol |
Boris Smolar | Boris "Ber" Smolar | 1897 | 1986 | Russian | Jewish-American journalist and newspaper editor from New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Smolar |
Vladimir Plungian | Vladimir Plungian | 1960 | n/a | Russian | linguist, specialist in linguistic typology and theory of grammar, morphology, corpus linguistics, African studies, poetics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Plungian |
Anna M. Kross | Anna Moscowitz Kross | 1891 | 1979 | Russian | lawyer, judge, and public official | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_M._Kross |
Aron Gurevich | Aron Yakovlevich Gurevich | 1924 | 2006 | Russian | medievalist historian, working on the European culture of the Middle Ages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Gurevich |
Misha Quint | Misha Quint | 1960 | n/a | Russian | classical cellist and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Quint |
Mordechai Tzvi Maneh | Mordechai Tzvi Maneh | 1859 | 1886 | Russian | Hebrew lyric poet, translator, and artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Tzvi_Maneh |
Anna Plisetskaya | Anna Alexandrovna Plisetskaya | 1971 | n/a | Russian | ballerina, actress and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Plisetskaya |
Rita Sapiro Finkler | Rita Sapiro Finkler | 1888 | 1968 | Russian | Empire-born American physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Sapiro_Finkler |
Yulia Neiman | Yulia Moiseevna Neiman | 1907 | 1994 | Russian | Jewish poet, essayist, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Neiman |
Gregory Eskin | Gregory Eskin | 1936 | n/a | Russian | mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Eskin |
Maria Rybakova | Maria Aleksandrovna Rybakova | 1973 | n/a | Russian | writer whose works have been published in multiple languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rybakova |
Isaak Asknaziy | Isaak L'vovich Asknaziy | 1856 | 1902 | Russian | Jewish painter in the Academic style, known primarily for his historical and Biblical scenes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Asknaziy |
Nicolai Jasnogrodsky | Nicolai Jasnogrodsky | 1859 | 1914 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai_Jasnogrodsky |
Joseph Berlin | Joseph Berlin | 1877 | 1952 | Russian | architect who worked in Russia and Mandatory Palestine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Berlin |
Maurice Moscovich | Maurice Moscovich | 1871 | 1940 | Russian | actor who was well-known for his roles in Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Moscovich |
Mikhail Rostovtsev (actor) | Mikhail Antonovich Rostovtsev | 1872 | 1948 | Russian | bass, opera and operetta singer, stage actor and film actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Rostovtsev_(actor) |
Élie de Poliakoff | Élie de Poliakoff | null | null | Russian | Jewish aristocrat and equestrian, who was regarded "among the best sportsmen in Paris" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élie_de_Poliakoff |
Alexander Poliakoff | Alexander Poliakoff OBE | 1910 | 1996 | Russian | electronics engineer, inventor and businessman, and the chairman of Multitone Electronics for over 40 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Poliakoff |
Valentin Pluchek | Valentin Nikolayevich Pluchek | 1909 | 2002 | Russian | theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Pluchek |
Zinovy Korogodsky | Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky | 1926 | 2004 | Russian | theater director, Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, winner of the Stanislavsky Award, an honorary professor of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinovy_Korogodsky |
Mikhaïl Faerman | Mikhail Faerman | 1955 | n/a | Russian | classical pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhaïl_Faerman |
Roman Trakhtenberg | Roman Lvovich Trakhtenberg | 1968 | 2009 | Russian | radio host and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Trakhtenberg |
Joshua Zeitlin | Joshua Zeitlin | 1742 | 1822 | Russian | rabbinical scholar and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Zeitlin |
Boris Mirkin-Getzevich | Boris Sergeyevich Mirkin-Getzevich | 1892 | 1955 | Russian | jurist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Mirkin-Getzevich |
Naum Krasner | Naum Krasner | 1924 | 1999 | Russian | mathematician and economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Krasner |
Alexander Kugel | Alexander Rafailovich Kugel | 1864 | 1928 | Russian | theatre critic and editor, founder of the False Mirror (Krivoye Zerkalo), a popular theatre of parodies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kugel |
V. S. Lelchuk | Vitaly Semenovich Lelchuk | 1929 | n/a | Russian | historian who is a specialist in the Soviet model of industrialisation, scientific and technological revolution, and the history of the USSR. He graduated from Moscow State University where he also taught before moving to the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Lelchuk |
Grigory Svirsky | Grigory Tsezarevich Svirsky | 1921 | 2016 | Russian | writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Svirsky |
Alexander Fiedemann | Alexander Fiedemann | 1878 | 1940 | Russian | violin virtuoso and music pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fiedemann |
Tina Lerner | Tina Lerner | 1889 | 1947 | Russian | concert pianist born in Odessa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Lerner |
Elina Fuhrman | Elina Fuhrman | null | null | Russian | journalist, author, and wellness activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elina_Fuhrman |
B. Gorin | Isaac Goido | 1868 | 1925 | Russian | Jewish-American Yiddish playwright, journalist, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Gorin |
Jacob Barit | Jakob Barit | 1797 | 1883 | Russian | Talmudist and communal worker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Barit |
Abraham Shalom Friedberg | Abraham Shalom Friedberg | 1838 | 1902 | Russian | Jewish Hebrew writer, editor, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Shalom_Friedberg |
Nathan D. Shapiro | Nathan Daniel Shapiro | 1887 | 1969 | Russian | Jewish-American lawyer and politician from New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_D._Shapiro |
Felix Kandel | Feliks Solomonovich Kandel | 1932 | n/a | Russian | Jewish writer, residing in Jerusalem, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Kandel |
Joseph Poliakoff | Joseph Lazarevich Poliakoff | 1873 | 1959 | Russian | telephone and sound engineer and inventor, particularly of hearing aids | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Poliakoff |
Conrad Hubert | Conrad Hubert | 1856 | 1928 | Russian | inventorWho Was Who in America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Hubert |
Lazar Brodsky | Lazar Izrayilevich Brodsky | null | null | Russian | Imperial businessman of Jewish origin, sugar magnate, philanthropist and patron | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Brodsky |
Alexander Halpern | Aleksandr Yakovelich Galpern | 1879 | 1956 | Russian | Menshevik politician and attorney, who played a significant part in the Russian Revolution | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Halpern |
Mikhail Svetlov (poet) | Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov | null | null | Russian | poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Svetlov_(poet) |
Igor Karassik | Igor J. Karassik | 1911 | 1795 | Russian | engineer known for his pioneering work with pumps, a field in which he was "world-renowned"Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension, Fourth Edition, by Heinz P. Bloch and Allan R. Budris, published October 14, 2013 by Fairmont Press and an "outstanding authority" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Karassik |
Aaron Zundelevich | Aaron Isaakovich Zundelevich | none | 1923 | Russian | Jewish revolutionary narodnik | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Zundelevich |
Solomon Smulewitz | Solomon Smulewitz | 1868 | 1943 | Russian | (later American) Jewish singer, badkhn, recording artist, and primarily composer for the Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Smulewitz |
Vladimir Reznikov | Vladimir Reznikov | 1986 | n/a | Russian | gangster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Reznikov |
Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski | Zebi Hirsch ha-Kohen Scherschewski | 1840 | 1909 | Russian | Hebrew writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebi_Hirsch_Scherschewski |
Yuri Aizenshpis | Yuri Shmilevich Ayzenshpis | 1945 | 1945 | Russian | music manager and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Aizenshpis |
Reuven Shari | Reuven Shari | 1903 | 1989 | Russian | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Shari |
Mikhail Herzenstein | Mikhail Yakovlevich Herzenstein | null | null | Russian | Jewish scientist and politician who converted to Christianity, elected for the Constitutional Democratic Party to the First State Duma of the Russian Empire, representing the city of Moscow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Herzenstein |
Isidore Gukovsky | Isidor Emmanuilovich Gukovsky | 1871 | 1921 | Russian | revolutionary who was a People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR following the Russian Revolution | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Gukovsky |
Anton Rovner | Anton Rovner | 1970 | n/a | Russian | composer, music critic and theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rovner |
Katia Kapovich | Katia Kapovich | 1960 | n/a | Russian | poet now living in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katia_Kapovich |
Vladimir Beliak | Vladimir Beliak | 1973 | n/a | Russian | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Beliak |
Yevgeny Krug | Yevgeny Sergeyevich Krug | 1986 | n/a | Russian | former professional association football player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Krug |
Mark Stolberg | Mark Moiseevich Stolberg | 1922 | 1942 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Stolberg |
Osip Notovich | Osip Notovich | null | null | Russian | author, journalist, and publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Notovich |
Grigory Helbach | Grigory Helbach | 1863 | 1930 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Helbach |
Efim Fradkin | Efim Samoilovich Fradkin | 1924 | 1999 | Russian | physicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efim_Fradkin |
Vladimir Yampolsky | Vladimir Yampolsky | 1905 | 1965 | Russian | pianist who served as David Oistrakh's accompanist in several recordings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Yampolsky |
Naum Olev | Naum Mironovich Olev | 1939 | 2009 | Russian | lyricist of Jewish origin who penned the songs for Mary Poppins, Goodbye (1983) and Treasure Island (1988), among many other Soviet musical films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Olev |
Fira Benenson | Fira Benenson | 1898 | 1977 | Russian | fashion designer and dressmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Benenson |
Antuan Bronshtein | Antuan Bronshtein | null | null | Russian | immigrant to the United States, convicted murderer, and reputed associate of the Russian Mafia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antuan_Bronshtein |
Mátti Kovler | Mátti Kovler | 1980 | n/a | Russian | composer and creator of new music theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mátti_Kovler |
Zoetica Ebb | Zoetica Ebb | null | null | Russian | artist, photographer, writer, model and alternative culture personage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetica_Ebb |
Philip Krantz | Jacob Rombro | 1858 | 1922 | Russian | Jewish-American socialist, newspaper editor, and Yiddish writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Krantz |
Emil Bachrach | Emanuel Maurice "Emil" Bachrach | 1874 | 1937 | Russian | Jewish-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the Philippines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Bachrach |
Dinora Pines | Dinora Pines Lewison | 1918 | 2002 | Russian | born, British physician and psychoanalyst, who had specific interests in women's psychology and psychosomatic illness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinora_Pines |
Isaac Kaminer | Isaac ben Abraham Kaminer | 1834 | 1901 | Russian | Empire Jewish Hebrew-language poet, satirist, and physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Kaminer |
David Ignatoff | David Ignatoff | 1885 | 1954 | Russian | Yiddish author and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ignatoff |
Dovid Knut | Dovid Knut or Knout | none | 1955 | Russian | Jewish poet and member of the French Resistance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovid_Knut |
Ilya Altman | Ilya Alexandrovich Altman | 1955 | n/a | Russian | historian and (next to Alla Gerber) founder and co-chairman of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center in Moscow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Altman |
Lev Shcheglov | Lev Shcheglov | 1946 | 2020 | Russian | physician who focused on sexology and psychotherapy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Shcheglov |
Boris Yakovlevich Zeldovich | Boris Yakovlevich Zeldovich | 1944 | 2018 | Russian | physicist and a son of the famous Soviet physicist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yakovlevich_Zeldovich |
Igor Chubais | Igor Borisovich Chubais | 1947 | n/a | Russian | philosopher and sociologist, Doctor of Sciences, and the author of many scientific and journalistic works | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Chubais |
Fenia Chertkoff | Fenia Chertkoff de Repetto | 1869 | 1927 | Russian | feminist, intellectual, educator, political activist, and sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenia_Chertkoff |
Boris Grachevsky | Boris Yurevich Grachevsky | 1949 | 2021 | Russian | film director, screenwriter, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Grachevsky |
Eliezer Dob Liebermann | Eliezer Dob Liebermann | 1820 | 1895 | Russian | maskilic writer and scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Dob_Liebermann |
Peter Aleshkovsky | Pyotr Markovich Aleshkovsky | 1957 | n/a | Russian | writer, historian, broadcaster, television presenter, journalist and archaeologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Aleshkovsky |
Mark Freidkin | Mark Iehielvich Freidkin | 1953 | 2014 | Russian | poet, author, translator, and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Freidkin |
Jan Hambourg | Jan Hambourg | none | 1947 | Russian | violinist, a member of a famous musical family, who made his career in Europe during the early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hambourg |
Rose Strunsky Lorwin | Rose Strunsky Lorwin | 1884 | 1963 | Russian | Jewish-American translator and socialist based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Strunsky_Lorwin |
Mark Rudinstein | Mark Izrailevich Rudinstein | 1946 | 2021 | Russian | actor, director, film producer and television presenter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rudinstein |
Genia Nikolajewa | Genia Nikolajewa | 1904 | 2001 | Russian | actress who made films in several countries, notably in Germany where she appeared in films such as Robert Siodmak's 1932 comedy Quick in a succession of supporting or minor roles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genia_Nikolajewa |
Vladimir Stoupel | Vladimir Stoupel | null | null | Russian | pianist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Stoupel |
Konstantin Eiges | Konstantin Romanovich Eiges | null | null | Russian | composer, teacher and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Eiges |
Israel Abramofsky | Israel Abramofsky | 1888 | 1975 | Russian | Empire born artist, who trained in Paris and settled in the United States, known for his landscape works and works depicting Jewish life in Eastern Europe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Abramofsky |
Ilya Zbarsky | Ilya Borisovich Zbarsky | 1913 | 2007 | Russian | head of Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Zbarsky |
David Traktovenko | David Isaakovich Traktovenko | null | null | Russian | businessman and the owner of A-League club Sydney FC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Traktovenko |
Abram Belenky | Abram Yakovlevich Belenky (Khatskelevich) | 1882 | 1883 | Russian | revolutionary, Bolshevik and a major functionary of the Soviet secret police (Cheka / OGPU / NKVD), born in Swierżań, Russian Emipre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Belenky |
Yakov Urinson | Yakov Moiseyevich Urinson | 1944 | n/a | Russian | politician of Jewish descent, economist and Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Russian economy in 1997–1998, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Urinson |
Edward Topol | Eduard Vladimirovich Topol , real name Topelberg | null | null | Russian | writer, film producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Topol |
Alexander Braudo | Alexander Braudo | 1864 | 1924 | Russian | Jewish author and publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Braudo |
Irina Reyn | Irina Reyn | null | null | Russian | novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Reyn |
Pinchas Polonsky | Pinchas Polonsky | 1958 | n/a | Russian | Jewish-religious philosopher, researcher, and educator active among the Russian-speaking Jewish community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinchas_Polonsky |
Zvi Lieberman | Zvi Lieberman | 1891 | 1985 | Russian | children’s book author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Lieberman |
Jake Kozloff | Jake Kozloff | 1901 | 1976 | Russian | businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Kozloff |
Anton Dolin (film critic) | Anton Vladimirovich Dolin | null | null | Russian | film critic, journalist, radio host, blogger and podcaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Dolin_(film_critic) |
Aryeh Leib Baron | Rabbi Aryeh Leib Baron | 1912 | 2011 | Russian | Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Merkaz HaTorah and the rabbi of Beis Medrash Merkaz HaTalmud in Montréal, Canada, as well as the founder of Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Leib_Baron |
Isaac Dembo | Isaac Dembo | null | null | Russian | Jewish physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Dembo |
Matthew Krel | Matthew Krel | 1945 | 2009 | Russian | Jewish conductor who migrated to Australia and in 1988 founded the SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra, of which he was the chief conductor until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Krel |
Sergey Psakhie | Sergey Psakhie | 1952 | 2018 | Russian | physicist, Chairman of the Presidium of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Psakhie |
Alexander Moiseevich Olevskii | Alexander Moiseevich Olevskii | 1939 | n/a | Russian | mathematician at Tel Aviv University, specializing in mathematical analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Moiseevich_Olevskii |
Michel Ephrussi | Michel Ephrussi | 1844 | 1914 | Russian | banker who also bred and raced Thoroughbreds | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ephrussi |
Kirill Bichutsky | Kirill Bichutsky | null | null | Russian | photographer, event organizer and entrepreneur based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Bichutsky |
Haia Lifșiț | Haia Lifșiț or Lifschitz | 1903 | 1929 | Russian | communist who died as a result of a hunger strike while in detention for her political opinions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haia_Lifșiț |
Hirsch Edelmann | Hirsch Edelmann | 1805 | 1858 | Russian | Jewish author and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_Edelmann |
Moshe Stekelis | Moshe Stekelis | 1898 | 1967 | Russian | born archaeologist who excavated the Neolithic Yarmukian culture at Sha'ar HaGolan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Stekelis |
Ivan Elagin (poet) | Ivan Elagin | 1918 | 1987 | Russian | émigré poet born in Vladivostok | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Elagin_(poet) |
Grigory Goldenberg | Grigory Goldenberg | 1855 | 1880 | Russian | revolutionary and member of the «Narodnaya Volya» (People's Will) organisation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Goldenberg |
Abraham Jacob Paperna | Abraham Jacob Paperna | 1840 | 1919 | Russian | Jewish educator and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Jacob_Paperna |
Ilya Scheinker | Ilya Mark Scheinker | null | null | Russian | neurologist and neuropathologist who in 1936 collaborated with Josef Gerstmann and Ernst Sträussler to describe Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome, a variant of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Scheinker |
Pati Kremer | Pati Kremer | 1867 | 1943 | Russian | revolutionary socialist and pioneer of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pati_Kremer |
Tatiana Belinky | Tatiana Belinky | 1919 | 2013 | Russian | children's writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Belinky |
Hillel Noah Maggid | Hillel Noah Maggid | 1829 | 1903 | Russian | Jewish genealogist and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Noah_Maggid |
Sacha Moldovan | Sacha Moldovan | 1901 | 1982 | Russian | expressionist and post-impressionist painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Moldovan |
Abraham Berline | Abraham Joseph Berline | 1893 | 1942 | Russian | artist who lived in Paris and died during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Berline |
Arthur Raffalovich | Arthur Germanovich Raffalovich | 1853 | 1921 | Russian | financier and economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Raffalovich |
Haim Lensky | Haim Lensky | 1905 | 1943 | Russian | poet who wrote in Hebrew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Lensky |
Alexander Evenson | Alexandr Moyseyevich Evensohn | 1892 | 1919 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Evenson |
Katia Skanavi | Katia Skanavi | 1971 | n/a | Russian | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katia_Skanavi |
David B. Zilberman | David B. Zilberman | 1938 | 1977 | Russian | philosopher and sociologist, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Zilberman |
Gali-Dana Singer | Gali-Dana Singer | 1962 | n/a | Russian | and Hebrew poet, artist, photographer, and translator who was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gali-Dana_Singer |
Nettie Ottenberg | Nettie Podell Ottenberg | null | null | Russian | social worker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettie_Ottenberg |
Alexander Boot | Alexander Boot | 1948 | n/a | Russian | writer of books and articles, previously a university lecturer and an advertising and public relations executive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Boot |
Mirit Cohen | Mirit Cohen | 1945 | 1990 | Russian | sculptor and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirit_Cohen |
Anna Ingerman | Anna Semyonorna Ingerman | 1868 | 1931 | Russian | Jewish-American physician and socialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ingerman |
Isaac Jacob Weissberg | Isaac Jacob Weissberg | 1841 | 1904 | Russian | Hebrew writer and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Jacob_Weissberg |
Andrej Kibrik | Andrej Kibrik | 1963 | n/a | Russian | linguist, the director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2017), and professor at the Philological Faculty of the Moscow State University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Kibrik |
Adella Kean Zametkin | Adella Kean Zametkin | 1863 | 1931 | Russian | Jewish writer and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adella_Kean_Zametkin |
Lev Shekhtman | Lev Shulimovich Shekhtman | 1951 | n/a | Russian | theatre director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Shekhtman |
Tamara Eidelman | Tamara Natanovna Eidelman | null | null | Russian | historian, honored teacher of Russia, translator, blogger and an editor for Russian Life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Eidelman |
Jekuthiel Berman | Jekuthiel Berman | 1825 | none | Russian | Hebrew writer, who published a number of novellas in maskilic journals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekuthiel_Berman |
Avraham-Yehoshua Makonovetsky | Avraham-Yehoshua Makonovetsky | 1872 | n/a | Russian | Jewish Klezmer violinist who acted as a key informant to the Soviet Ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky in the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham-Yehoshua_Makonovetsky |
Abram Gots | Abram Rafailovich Gots | 1882 | 1940 | Russian | Socialist-Revolutionary leader, active in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Gots |
Arkadiy Belinkov | Arkadiy Viktorovich Belinkov | 1921 | 1970 | Russian | writer and literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadiy_Belinkov |
Jacques Companeez | Jacques Companeez | 1906 | 1956 | Russian | Jewish émigré screenwriter in Paris | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Companeez |
Aleksandr Khazanov | Aleksandr Leonidovich Khazanov | 1979 | 2001 | Russian | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Khazanov |
Sam Eig | Sam Eig (c. 1899 – 1982) | 1899 | 1982 | Russian | real estate developer active in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Eig |
Grigori Gamburg | Grigori (German) Semyonovich Gamburg | none | 1967 | Russian | (Soviet) violinist, violist, composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Gamburg |
Alexandra Brushtein | Alexandra Yakovlevna Brushtein | 1884 | 1968 | Russian | writer, playwright, and memoirist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Brushtein |
Judah Behak | Judah Behak | 1820 | 1900 | Russian | Hebrew writer, philologist, and Biblical commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Behak |
Aryeh Leib Schochet | Rabbi Aryeh Leib Schochet | null | null | Russian | rabbi who emigrated to the United States in 1906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Leib_Schochet |
Yuri Golfand | Yuri Abramovich Golfand | 1922 | 1994 | Russian | physicist known, in particular, for his 1971 paper (joint with his student Evgeny Likhtman) where they proposed supersymmetry between bosonic and fermionic particles by extending the Poincaré algebra with anticommuting spinor generators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Golfand |
Lev Ozerov | Lev Ozerov | 1914 | 1996 | Russian | Jewish poet, translator and essayist born in Kiev | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Ozerov |
Victor Sosnora | Victor Aleksandrovich Sosnora | 1936 | 2019 | Russian | poet, writer and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Sosnora |
Aleksei (convert) | Aleksei | null | null | Russian | archpriest who became known for converting to Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_(convert) |
Rosa Dubovsky | Rosa Chanovsky | 1885 | 1972 | Russian | feminist activist and militant anarchist in Argentina | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Dubovsky |
Sophie Liebknecht | Sophie Liebknecht | 1884 | 1964 | Russian | socialist and feminist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Liebknecht |
Lazar Lipman Hurwitz | Lazar Lipman Hurwitz | 1815 | 1852 | Russian | Jewish editor and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Lipman_Hurwitz |
Yakov Yakovlevich Etinger | Yakov Yakovlevich Etinger | 1929 | 2014 | Russian | political scientist, essayist, historian and political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Yakovlevich_Etinger |
Marina Shamal | Marina Yakubovna Shamal | 1939 | n/a | Russian | retired swimmer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Shamal |
Mikhail Gots | Mikhail Rafailovich Gots | 1866 | 1906 | Russian | revolutionary, member of 'The People's Will' (Narodnaya Volya) and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (PSR) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gots |
Eduard Krug | Eduard Sergeyevich Krug | 1991 | n/a | Russian | former professional football player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Krug |
Osip Gelfond | Osip Isaakovich Gelfond | 1868 | 1942 | Russian | physician and Marxist philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Gelfond |
Gennady Gor | Gennady Samoilovich Gor | 1907 | 1981 | Russian | writer and science fiction author of the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Gor |
Jacob Liboschütz | Jacob Liboschütz | 260 | 1860 | Russian | Empire medical doctor; born in 1741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Liboschütz |
Rosa Pavlovsky de Rosemberg | Rosa Pavlovsky de Rosemberg | 1862 | 1936 | Russian | physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Pavlovsky_de_Rosemberg |
Izrail Metter | Izrail Moiseyevich Metter | 1909 | 1996 | Russian | writer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izrail_Metter |
Vladimir Genin | Vladimir Mikhailovich Genin | 1958 | n/a | Russian | composer, pianist and piano teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Genin |
Adelaida Semyonovna Simonovitch | Adelaida Semyonovna Simonovitch | 1844 | 1933 | Russian | educator and the founder of the first kindergarten in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaida_Semyonovna_Simonovitch |
Valery Leibin | Valery Moiseevich Leibin | 1942 | n/a | Russian | psychoanalyst, Ph.D., head of the department of history and theory of psychoanalysis in Institute of Psychoanalysis, Professor of Moscow State Medical Stomatological University, an honorary Doctor of East European Institute of Psychoanalysis, an honorary member of the interregional public organization Russian Psychoanalytical Society, a member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences, a chief scientist of Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the editorial boards of the "Russian Psychoanalytic Bulletin" (since 1991), the philosophic psychoanalytic journal "Archetype" (since 1996), "Psychoanalytic Review" (since 1997) and "Review of Psychoanalysis" (since 2005) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Leibin |
Emmanuel Steinschneider | Emmanuel Efimovich Steinschneider | 1886 | 1970 | Russian | Empire and USSR physician and medical researcher, best known for his studies on influenza, malaria, typhoid, typhus, dysentery and other infections that were rampant during the first half of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Steinschneider |
Miriam Laserson | Miriam Laserson | 1919 | 2021 | Russian | actress, poet and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Laserson |
Max Pine | Max Pine | 1866 | 1928 | Russian | Jewish-American labor activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Pine |
Abner Tannenbaum | Abner Tannenbaum | 1848 | 1913 | Russian | Jewish-American Yiddish writer and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Tannenbaum |
Sergius Ingerman | Sergius Mikhalovitch Ingerman | 1868 | 1943 | Russian | Jewish-American socialist and physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_Ingerman |
Sylvin Rubinstein | Sylvin Rubinstein | 1914 | 2011 | Russian | Jewish dancer and cross-dresser, who was a member of the resistance to Nazism during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvin_Rubinstein |
Zinaida Mirkina | Zinaida Alexandrovna Mirkina | 1926 | 2018 | Russian | essayist, translator and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinaida_Mirkina |
Pyotr Veinberg | Pyotr Isaevich Veinberg | null | null | Russian | poet, translator, journalist and literary historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Veinberg |
Mikhail Rabinovich | Mikhail Izrailevich Rabinovich | null | null | Russian | influential physicist and neuroscientist working in the field of nonlinear dynamics and its applications | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Rabinovich |
Abraham Harawitz | Abraham Harawitz | 1879 | 1935 | Russian | Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Harawitz |
Rose Caylor | Rose Caylor | 1898 | 1979 | Russian | screenwriter, playwright, actress, and journalist known for her work in the U.S. in the 1920s through the 1940s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Caylor |
Hayyim Jonah Gurland | Jonah Hayyim Gurland | 1843 | 1890 | Russian | and Hebrew writer born at Kleck, government of Minsk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayyim_Jonah_Gurland |
Avraam Zak | Avraam Isakovich Zak | 1829 | 1893 | Russian | Jewish banker, philanthropist, and public figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraam_Zak |
Benjamin Kagan | Benjamin Fedorovich Kagan | 1869 | 1953 | Russian | mathematician and expert in geometry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Kagan |
David Aizman | David Yakovlevich Aizman | 1869 | 1922 | Russian | Jewish novelist and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Aizman |
Adolf Milman | Adolf Izrailevich Milman | 1886 | n/a | Russian | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Milman |
David Lvovich | David Lvovich | 1882 | 1950 | Russian | Jewish politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lvovich |
Matvey Natanzon | Matvey Natanzon | 1968 | 2020 | Russian | backgammon player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Natanzon |
Vladimir Pozner Sr. | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner | 1908 | 1975 | Russian | Jewish émigré to the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pozner_Sr. |
Pyotr Vail | Pyotr Lvovich Vail | 1949 | 2009 | Russian | author, journalist, essayist and deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russia service | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Vail |
Joseph Hertzberg | Joseph Hertzberg | 1870 | n/a | Russian | Jewish writer and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hertzberg |
Rachel Mironovna Khin | Rachel Mironovna Khin | 1861 | 1928 | Russian | Jewish author, playwright, and salonnière | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Mironovna_Khin |
Simon Blumenfeldt | Simon Blumenfeldt | 1760 | 1770 | Russian | Hebrew calligrapher and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Blumenfeldt |
Minna Weizmann | Minna Weizmann | 1889 | 1925 | Russian | Jewish doctor who served in Syria and Palestine during World War I. Weizmann also served as a spy for Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minna_Weizmann |
Eva Broido | Eva L'vovna Gordon Broido | 1876 | 1878 | Russian | revolutionary, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Menshevik Party in 1917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Broido |
Moses Milner | Mikhail "Moshe" Arnoldovich Milner | 1886 | 1953 | Russian | Jewish pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Milner |
Adolfo Aizen | Adolfo Aizen | 1904 | 1991 | Russian | journalist and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Aizen |
Vladimir Gomelsky | Vladimir Alexandrovich Gomelsky | 1953 | n/a | Russian | TV commentator, journalist, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Gomelsky |
Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin | Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin | 1823 | 1888 | Russian | Jewish scholar and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_ben_Aaron_Zeitlin |
Joseph Judah Chorny | Joseph Judah Chorny | null | null | Russian | traveller, born at Minsk on 20 April 1835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Judah_Chorny |
Marcus Nathanson | Marcus Nathanson | 1793 | 1868 | Russian | Jewish scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Nathanson |
Simon Osiashvili | Simon Abramovich Osiashvili | 1952 | n/a | Russian | poet, singer, Honoured Artist of Russia (2002) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Osiashvili |
Vladimir Weisberg | Vladimir Grigoryevich Weisberg | 1924 | 1985 | Russian | Jewish painter and art theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Weisberg |
Boris Yampolsky | Boris Yampolsky | 1912 | 1972 | Russian | writer and editor, born in Ukraine, the influences of whose Jewish childhood who remain a theme throughout his work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yampolsky |
Serge Nadaud | Serge Nadaud | 1906 | 1995 | Russian | stage and film actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Nadaud |
Joshua Lewinsohn | Joshua Lewinsohn | null | null | Russian | teacher and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Lewinsohn |
Raisa Blokh | Raisa Noevna Blokh | 1899 | 1943 | Russian | poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisa_Blokh |
Saul Raskin | Saul Raskin | 1878 | 1966 | Russian | born American artist, writer, lecturer and teacher best known for his depiction of Jewish subjects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Raskin |
Mascha Benya | Mascha Benya | 1908 | 2007 | Russian | soprano known especially for her promotion and performance of Yiddish and Hebrew folk and art music in the United States after World War II. After a short career as an opera singer in the Jüdischer Kulturbund in 1930s Berlin, she emigrated to New York after Kristallnacht and became an important figure in the teaching of Yiddish and Hebrew song through the Workman's Circle, Kaufman Music Center, and other organizations, as well as a touring singer, radio performer, and recording artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascha_Benya |
Alexander Aizenshtat | Alexander Aizenshtat | 1951 | n/a | Russian | artist known as the founder of a new movement in world fine arts - metaphysical expressionism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Aizenshtat |
László Dombrovszky | László Dombrovszky | 1894 | 1982 | Russian | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Dombrovszky |
Peter Fishman | Peter Fishman | 1955 | n/a | Russian | sculptor and painter of Jewish ancestry, Professor ordinarius in sculpture at the Smolensk University for Humanities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fishman |
Vladimir Sharov | Vladimir Alexandrovich Sharov | 1952 | 2018 | Russian | novelist who was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel Return to Egypt (Возвращение в Египет) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Sharov |
Michael Zametkin | Michael Zametkin | 1859 | 1935 | Russian | labor activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Zametkin |
Mark Vishniak | Mark Veniaminovich Vishniak | 1883 | 1977 | Russian | socialist, journalist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Vishniak |
John Paley | John Paley | 1871 | 1907 | Russian | Jewish-American Yiddish writer and newspaper editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paley |
Max Kyuss | Max Avelyevich Kyuss | 1874 | 1942 | Russian | musician, conductor and composer, primarily in the Russian military | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Kyuss |
Abraham Kohen Kaplan | Abraham Kohen Kaplan | 1839 | 1897 | Russian | Hebrew writer, poet, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Kohen_Kaplan |
Nina Gourfinkel | Nina Lazavrevna Gourfinkel | 1898 | 1984 | Russian | Jewish writer living in France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Gourfinkel |
Zlata Razdolina | Zlata Razdolina | null | null | Russian | Jewish composer, singer-songwriter and music performer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlata_Razdolina |
Salomon Rosenblum | Salomon Aminyu Zalman Rosenblum | 1896 | 1959 | Russian | born nuclear physicist who became a French citizen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Rosenblum |
Osip Minor | Osip Solomonovich Minor | 1861 | 1932 | Russian | revolutionary and member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Minor |
Ignace von Ephrussi | Baron Ignace von Ephrussi | 1829 | 1899 | Russian | banker and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignace_von_Ephrussi |
Aaron Elijah Pumpianski | Aaron Elijah ben Aryeh Löb Pumpianski | 1835 | 1893 | Russian | crown rabbi and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Elijah_Pumpianski |
Samuil Lurie | Samuil Aronovich Lurie | 1942 | 2015 | Russian | writer and literary historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuil_Lurie |
Michael Tendler | Michael Tendler | 1947 | n/a | Russian | Physicist, currently (Emeritus) Professor of Fusion Plasma Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (KTH) and Senior Science Expert and member of the External Management Advisory Board of the ITER Organization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tendler |
Abram Markson | Abram Leontievich Markson | 1888 | 1938 | Russian | violinist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Markson |
Scheina Grebelskaja | Scheina Grebelskaja | none | 1886 | Russian | psychoanalyst who worked at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zürich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheina_Grebelskaja |
Naphtali Wolf Tur | Naphtali Wolf Tur | 1885 | n/a | Russian | Hebraist of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtali_Wolf_Tur |
Jacob Solomon Olschwang | Jacob Solomon Olschwang | 1840 | 1896 | Russian | writer and Hebraist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Solomon_Olschwang |
Elena Akselrod | Elena Meerovna Akselrod | 1932 | n/a | Russian | poet, translator, daughter of noted artist Meer Akselrod, wrote a monograph about her father | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Akselrod |
Nathan Swartz | Nathan Swartz | 1902 | 1984 | Russian | Empire-born American shoemaker and businessman, known for founding the Timberland Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Swartz |
Emmanuel Metter | Emmanuel Leonievich Metter | 1878 | 1941 | Russian | conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Metter |
Joel Shubin | Joel Shubin | 1942 | n/a | Russian | agronomist, journalist, and an alleged Communist International representative to the American Communist Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Shubin |
Nikolai Rubinshtein | Nikolai Leonidovich Rubinshtein | null | null | Russian | historian known for his historiographical works and his research into the economic history of Russia and the formation of capitalism in that country | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Rubinshtein |
Naphtali Herz Shulman | Naphtali Herz Shulman | null | null | Russian | Hebrew author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtali_Herz_Shulman |
Fannie Lorber | Fannie Eller Lorber | 1881 | 1958 | Russian | philanthropist and community activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lorber |
Aleksandr Drakokhrust | Aleksandr Abramovich Drakokhrust | 1923 | 2008 | Russian | language poet, journalist and translator from the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Drakokhrust |
Vladimir Sloutsker | Vladimir Iosifovich Sloutsker | 1956 | n/a | Russian | Oligarch and former senator who represented Chuvash Republic in the Russian parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Sloutsker |
Yuri Steklov | Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov | 1941 | n/a | Russian | revolutionary, Soviet politician, journalist, editor and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Steklov |
Simon Brainin | Simon Brainin | 1854 | 1911 | Russian | and an American physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Brainin |
Miri Yampolsky | Miri Yampolsky | null | null | Russian | pianist and a naturalised Israeli citizen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miri_Yampolsky |
Aleksandr Levin | Aleksandr Mitrofanovich Levin | 1871 | 1929 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Levin |
Mikhail Gorlin | Mikhail Genrikhovich Gorlin | 1909 | 1943 | Russian | emigre poet who founded the Berlin Poets' Club in 1928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorlin |
Martin André Rosanoff | Martin André Rosanoff, Sc.D. | 1874 | 1951 | Russian | chemist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_André_Rosanoff |
Vladimir Lantsberg | Vladimir Isaakovich Lantsberg | 1948 | 2005 | Russian | poet, songwriter, bard, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lantsberg |
Hirsch Loeb Sabsovich | Hirsch Loeb Sabsovich | 1860 | 1915 | Russian | Jewish agronomist, chemist, agricultural educator, Mayor of Woodbine, New Jersey, General Agent of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, and a leader of the Am Olam movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_Loeb_Sabsovich |
Aaron ben Menahem Mendel | Aaron ben Menahem Mendel | null | null | Russian | rabbi, who flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_ben_Menahem_Mendel |
Vera Rozanka | Vera Rozanka | 1893 | 1985 | Russian | Yiddish Theatre actor and manager, soprano, writer, radio performer, and recording artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rozanka |
Alexander Gershman | Alexander Gershman | 1961 | n/a | Russian | surgeon (born on May 26, 1961 in Moscow, Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gershman |
Peter Demant | Peter Demant | 1918 | 2006 | Russian | writer and public figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Demant |
Charles E. Shulman | Charles Emanuel Shulman | 1900 | 1968 | Russian | rabbi and attorney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Shulman |
Boris Yelensky | Boris Yelensky | null | null | Russian | anarchist propagandist from the early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yelensky |
Aharon April | Aharon April | null | null | Russian | artist and contemporary Israeli artist born in Lithuania in 1932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_April |
Wolff Kostakowsky | Wolff N. Kostakowsky | 1879 | 1944 | Russian | klezmer violinist known mostly for his publication of a book of klezmer dance tunes titled International Hebrew Wedding Music, published in New York City in 1916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolff_Kostakowsky |
Arkady Gornfeld | Arkady Georgievich Gornfeld | none | 1941 | Russian | prominent essayist, literary critic and translator, best known for a feud with dissident poet Osip Mandelstam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Gornfeld |
Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson | Zhanna Arshanskaya ("Janna") Dawson | 1927 | n/a | Russian | pianist and former faculty member of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (Bloomington) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhanna_Arshanskaya_Dawson |
Viktor Krivulin | Viktor Borisovich Krivulin | 1944 | 2001 | Russian | poet, novelist and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Krivulin |
Eugenia Berlin | Eugenia Berlin | 1905 | 2003 | Russian | sculptor, painter, designer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Berlin |
Joseph Koret | Joseph Koret | 1900 | 1982 | Russian | businessman and philanthropist who founded the textile company Koret of California and the not-for-profit Koret Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Koret |
Yakov Alpert | Yakov Lvovich Alpert | 1911 | 2010 | Russian | Empire-born American physicist whose principal field of research was space plasma physics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Alpert |
Jacob Magidoff | Jacob Magidoff | 1869 | 1943 | Russian | Jewish-American Yiddish journalist and newspaper editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Magidoff |
David Vygodsky | David Isaakovich Vygodsky | 1893 | 1943 | Russian | literary critic, linguist, translator, poet, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vygodsky |
Maurice G. Hindus | Maurice Gerschon Hindus | 1891 | 1969 | Russian | writer, foreign correspondent, lecturer and authority on Soviet and Central European affairs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_G._Hindus |
Bernhard Nathanson | Bernhard Nathanson | 1832 | 1916 | Russian | Jewish Hebrew journalist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Nathanson |
Jacob Marinoff | Jacob Marinoff | 1869 | 1964 | Russian | Yiddish publisher and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Marinoff |
Boris Solotareff | Boris Solotareff | 1889 | 1966 | Russian | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Solotareff |
Boris Krimus | Boris Krimus | 1969 | n/a | Russian | former footballer who played in the Soviet First League, Moldovan National Division, Liga Leumit, and the Canadian Professional Soccer League | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Krimus |
Josef Ringo | Josef Abramovich Ringo | null | null | Russian | scientist, inventor, writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Ringo |
Tobias Akselrod | Tobias Akselrod | 1887 | 1938 | Russian | revolutionary and 1919 member of the Bavarian Soviet Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Akselrod |
Boris Carmi | Boris Carmi | 1914 | 2002 | Russian | photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Carmi |
Josefa Gurfinkel | Josefa Alexandrovna Gurfinkel | 1919 | 1997 | Russian | Jewish-born Soviet chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (1954) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefa_Gurfinkel |
Igor Rabiner | Igor Yakovlevich Rabiner | 1973 | n/a | Russian | football journalist and writer known for his work with Sport-Express and his books, most notably his controversial bestseller How Spartak Was Being Killed (), where he describes the crisis FC Spartak Moscow faced in the early 2000s, at the end of Oleg Romantsev's reign and immediately after it | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Rabiner |
Lev Borodulin | Lev Abramovich Borodulin | 1923 | 2018 | Russian | photographer, master of sports photography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Borodulin |
Vera Slutskaya | Vera Klimentievna Slutskaya | 1874 | 1917 | Russian | revolutionary and Bolshevik member of the Duma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Slutskaya |
Lev Gorelik | Lev Grigoryevich Gorelik | 1992 | n/a | Russian | football goalkeeper who plays for Hapoel Iksal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Gorelik |
William Moses Feldman | Dr William Moses Feldman FRSE FRCP | 1880 | 1939 | Russian | expert on child health in Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moses_Feldman |
Moses Proser | Moses ha-Kohen Proser | 1840 | 1895 | Russian | Hebrew writer, journalist, and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Proser |
Abraham Baer Dobsewitch | Abraham Baer ben Joseph Ezra Dobsewitch (or Dobsevage) | 1843 | 1900 | Russian | Hebraist and exegete | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Baer_Dobsewitch |
Boris Semyonovich Meyerovich | Boris Semyonovich Meyerovich | 1977 | n/a | Russian | former professional football player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Semyonovich_Meyerovich |
Moissei Eljaschoff | Moissei Zacharowitch Eljaschoff | 1870 | 1919 | Russian | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissei_Eljaschoff |
Shmuel Pevzner | Shmuel Pevzner | 1878 | 1930 | Russian | Jewish writer and industrialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Pevzner |
Mark Galperin | Mark Galperin | 1968 | n/a | Russian | political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galperin |
Anna Narinskaya | Anna Anatolievna Narinskaya | 1966 | n/a | Russian | journalist, literary critic, exhibition curator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Narinskaya |
Solomon Khromchenko | Solomon Markovich Khromchenko | 1907 | 2002 | Russian | and Jewish tenor singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Khromchenko |
Lazar Solomonovich Minor | Lazar Solomonovich Minor | 1855 | 1942 | Russian | neurologist who was a native of Vilnius | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Solomonovich_Minor |