100 Notable Alumni of Odessa National University

Sergei Witte

Born in: Georgia
Years: 1849-1915 (aged 66)
Occupations: diplomatstatespersonpolitician
Biography: Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the emperor as head of government. Neither liberal nor conservative, he attracted foreign capital to boost Russia's industrialization. Witte's strategy was to avoid the danger of wars.

George Gamow

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1904-1968 (aged 64)
Occupations: cosmologistuniversity teacherphysicistastrophysicistbiochemist
Biography: George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model (the first mathematical model of the atomic nucleus), worked on radioactive decay, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (which he collectively called nucleocosmogenesis), and predicted the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation and molecular genetics.

Ivan Sechenov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1829-1905 (aged 76)
Occupations: philosopherpsychologistmathematicianengineerphysiologist
Biography: Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov was a Russian psychologist, physiologist, and medical scientist.

Waldemar Haffkine

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1856-1930 (aged 74)
Occupations: bacteriologistimmunologistphysicianmicrobiologistbotanist
Biography: Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine CIE, born Vladimir Aronovich Khavkin (Russian: Владимир Аронович (Маркус-Вольф) Хавкин; 15 March 1860 – 26 October 1930) was a Russian-French bacteriologist known for his pioneering work in vaccines.

Gleb Pavlovsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1951-2023 (aged 72)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1973
Occupations: journalistopinion journalistlecturerpolitical scientisthistorian
Biography: Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky was a Russian political scientist who also described himself as a "political technologist". During the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a dissident. From 1996 to 2011, he was a political adviser to Vladimir Putin. After that, he became a critic of the Russian government.

Aleko Konstantinov

Born in: Bulgaria
Years: 1863-1897 (aged 34)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied law
Occupations: lawyerjournalistwritertranslatorprose writer
Biography: Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction.

Nariman Narimanov

Born in: Georgia
Years: 1870-1925 (aged 55)
Occupations: opinion journalistpoliticianwriterplaywrightphysician
Biography: Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oghlu Narimanov was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician and statesman. For just over one year, beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from 30 December 1922 until the day of his death.

Natasha Yarovenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1979-.. (age 47)
Occupations: film actoractormodel
Biography: Natalia "Natasha" Olegovna Yarovenko is a Ukrainian born actress residing in Spain.

Ihor Klymenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1972-.. (age 54)
Occupations: police officer
Biography: Ihor Volodymyrovych Klymenko is a Ukrainian police general serving as the minister of internal affairs since 7 February 2023 (acting since 18 January). He succeeded Denys Monastyrsky following his death in a helicopter crash. He had been the chief of the National Police of Ukraine from 25 September 2019 until 19 January 2023.

Nikolay Gamaleya

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1859-1949 (aged 90)
Occupations: physicianbiologistvirologistepidemiologist
Biography: Nikolay Fyodorovich Gamaleya was a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet physician and scientist of Zaporozhian Cossack origin who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research.

Mykola Zelinsky

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1861-1953 (aged 92)
Occupations: university teacherchemistinventor
Biography: Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky was a Russian and Soviet chemist and educator. He was a professor at Moscow University from 1893 and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).

Svetlana Martynchik

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: writerpainter
Biography: Max Frei is the pen name of Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik (Russian: Светла́на Ю́рьевна Марты́нчик; Ukrainian: Світлана Юріївна Мартинчик) (born 1965 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), a fantasy writer from Odessa, Ukraine. She writes in Russian and mostly publishes in Russia while holding Ukrainian citizenship. She permanently resides in Vilnius, Lithuania. Martynchik has collaborated many years on her books with her spouse, artist Igor Styopin (1967–2018).

Efim Geller

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1925-1998 (aged 73)
Occupations: chess player
Biography: Efim Petrovich Geller was a Soviet chess player and world-class grandmaster at his peak. He won the Soviet Championship twice (in 1955 and 1979) and was a Candidate for the World Championship on six occasions (1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1968, and 1971). He won four Ukrainian SSR Championship titles (in 1950, 1957, 1958, and 1959) and shared first in the 1991 World Seniors' Championship, winning the title outright in 1992.

Krste Misirkov

Born in: Greece
Years: 1874-1926 (aged 52)
Occupations: historianwriter
Biography: Krste Petkov Misirkov was a philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer from the region of Macedonia.

Olga Kovitidi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: In 1986 studied jurisprudence
Occupations: juriststatespersonlawyerpolitician
Biography: Olga Fyodorovna Kovitidi, is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician, who currently serves as Russian Federation Senator from Crimea since 2014. Kovitidi was previously a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea from 2006 until 2014, when it was dissolved amidst the generally internationally unrecognised Russian annexation of Crimea, which she supported. During her tenure in the Rada, she briefly served as her peninsula's Deputy Prime Minister in 2014.

Alexander Bogomolets

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1881-1946 (aged 65)
Occupations: pathologistimmunologistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets was a Soviet and Ukrainian pathophysiologist.

Leon Pinsker

Born in: Poland
Years: 1821-1891 (aged 70)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied law
Occupations: politicianwriterjournalistphysicianpolitical activist
Biography: Leon Pinsker or Judah Leib Pinsker was a physician and Zionist activist.

Mariusz Zaruski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1867-1941 (aged 74)
Occupations: military officerwriterpainterpoetsailor
Biography: Mariusz Zaruski was a brigadier-general in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting, an outstanding climber of the winter and caves of Tatra Mountains. He was a photographer, painter, poet and writer, a seamen and traveler, a conspirator, legionnaire and lancer in Polish cavalry.

Andrii Kostin

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1973-.. (age 53)
Occupations: prosecutorlawyerpolitician
Biography: Andriy Yevhenovych Kostin is a Ukrainian lawyer, politician and diplomat.

Ali Mohamed Shein

Years: 1948-.. (age 78)
Occupations: politicianminister
Biography: Ali Mohamed Shein was the 7th President of Zanzibar, from 2010 to 2020. He was previously Vice President of Tanzania from 2001 to 2010. Shein is originally from the island of Pemba, and he is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. He is a medical doctor by profession.

Georges Florovsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1893-1979 (aged 86)
Occupations: university teachertheologianhistorianphilosopherpriest
Biography: Georges Vasilievich Florovsky was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, and historian.

Danylo Zabolotny

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1866-1929 (aged 63)
Occupations: biologistbotanistmicrobiologist
Biography: Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny was a Ukrainian and Soviet epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology. In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology.

Maxim Kalashnikov

Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1983
Occupations: YouTuberfuturistwriterjournalistpresenter
Biography: Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko, better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov (Максим Калашников), is a Russian writer, publicist, and political activist.

Don-Aminado

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1888-1957 (aged 69)
Occupations: lawyerpoet
Biography: Don Aminado was a Russian emigre writer. He was born Aminodav Shpolyansky into a Jewish family in Elizavetgrad in the Kherson Governorate of the old Russian empire. He studied law in Odessa and Kiev, and showed literary promise during his student years. In the decade of the 1910s, he published in various outlets such as Rannee Utro, Novy Satirikon and Krasnyi Smekh, dropping his Jewish name in favour of the pen name Don Aminado.

Boris Kaufman

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1973-.. (age 53)
Occupations: banker
Biography: Borys Rafailovych Kaufman, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.

Dmitri Golubov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1983-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Dmitri Ivanovich Golubov is a Ukrainian politician and former People's Deputy of Ukraine, cybercriminal, former carder. He is also the leader of the Internet Party of Ukraine, although he has never taken part in any election as a candidate of this party.

Irina Ratushinskaya

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1954-2017 (aged 63)
Occupations: poetwriter
Biography: Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.

Volodymyr Yavorivsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1942-2021 (aged 79)
Occupations: screenwriterpoliticianwriterjournalistpoet
Biography: Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky was a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine twice, first from 1990 to 1998 and later from 2002 to 2012. A co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine before joining the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

Khosrov bey Sultanov

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1879-1943 (aged 64)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1903
Occupations: politician
Biography: Khosrov bey Alipasha bey oghlu Sultanov, also spelled as Khosrow Sultanov, was an Azerbaijani statesman, General Governor of Karabakh and Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic. He was the primary architect responsible for the Shusha and Khaibalikend massacres.

Yuriy Karmazin

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1957-2022 (aged 65)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: Yurii Karmazin was a Ukrainian politician and judge. Karmazin served four terms as a People's Deputy of Ukraine.

Nasib bey Yusifbeyli

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1881-1920 (aged 39)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Nasib bey Yusif bey oghlu Yusifbeyli or Usubbeyov (Azerbaijani: Usubbəyov; 5 July 1881 – 31 May 1920) was an Azerbaijani publicist, statesman and major political figure in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Grigory Fichtengolz

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1888-1959 (aged 71)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1911
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Grigorii Mikhailovich Fikhtengol'ts was a Soviet mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fikhtengol'ts was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis.

Alexander Granovskiy

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1972-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Oleksandr Hranovskyi, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.

Andrey Stavnitser

Born in: Russia
Years: 1982-.. (age 44)
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Andrey Alekseyevich Stavnitser is a Ukrainian businessman, co-owner and CEO of TIS. Stavnitser is also the co-owner of Neptune Grain Terminal, a P&O Maritime Ukraine towage operator and a founding partner of SD Capital Investment Company. He is honorary consul of Austria in Odesa. In 2021, Stavnitser was included in the list of the 100 richest Ukrainians by Forbes magazine, his capital amounting to US$215,000,000. Andrey is the Founder of Superhumans Center of War Trauma.

Leonid Plyushch

Born in: Kyrgyzstan
Years: 1939-2015 (aged 76)
Occupations: mathematicianhuman rights defender
Biography: Leonid Ivanovych Plyushch was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident.

Mykola Vasylenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1866-1935 (aged 69)
Occupations: historianlawyerdiplomatpolitician
Biography: Mykola Prokopovych Vasylenko was a Ukrainian scholar and public figure. He briefly served as temporary Otaman of the Council of Ministers (a post akin to that of Prime Minister), later holding the post of Minister of Education and Director of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (a predecessor to the modern National Academy of Sciences).

Mykola Arkas

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1852-1909 (aged 57)
Occupations: poetwritercomposernaval officeradult educator
Biography: Mykola Mykolayovych Arkas was a Ukrainian composer, writer, historian, and cultural activist of Greek ancestry. In 1908, Arkas wrote History of Ukraine, first popular history of Ukraine published in Ukrainian. His most notable musical composition was the opera Kateryna.

Georgi Iwanowitsch Tschelpanow

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1862-1936 (aged 74)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1887
Occupations: psychologistphilosopher
Biography: Georgy Ivanovich Chelpanov was a Russian Imperial and Soviet psychologist, philosopher and logician.

Kadish Luz

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1895-1972 (aged 77)
Occupations: military personneleconomistpolitician
Biography: Kadish Luz was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and as Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969.

Lev Alburt

Born in: Russia
Years: 1945-.. (age 81)
Occupations: writercoachnon-fiction writerchess player
Biography: Lev Osipovich Alburt is an American chess Grandmaster, writer and coach. He was born in Orenburg, Russia, and became three-time Ukrainian Champion. After defecting to the United States in 1979, he became three-time U.S. Champion.

Pyotr Shirshov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1905-1953 (aged 48)
Occupations: marine biologistexplorerzoologistpolitician
Biography: Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov was a Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).

Wincenty Rzymowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1883-1950 (aged 67)
Occupations: journalistdiplomatopinion journalistpolitician
Biography: Wincenty Rzymowski was a Polish politician and writer.

Moses Schönfinkel

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1888-1942 (aged 54)
Occupations: scientist
Biography: Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel was a logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic.

Petre Melikishvili

Born in: Georgia
Years: 1850-1927 (aged 77)
Occupations: chemist
Biography: Petre Melikishvili was a Georgian chemist. He was the co-founder of Tbilisi State University (TSU), the first rector of TSU, head of the Department of Organic Chemistry (1919-1927), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1927) and professor at the University of Odessa.

Mordechai Namir

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1897-1975 (aged 78)
Occupations: trade unionistpolitician
Biography: Mordechai Namir was an Israeli politician, who served as the mayor of Tel Aviv (1959–1969), a Knesset member and government minister, as well as being one of the heads of the Labour Zionist movement.

Gyunduz Mamedov

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1974-.. (age 52)
Occupations: prosecutorjuristProsecutor General of Ukraine
Biography: Gyunduz Aidynovych Mamedov is an Azerbaijani-born Ukrainian lawyer and human rights activist who has served as Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 22 August 2016, and also served as Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 18 October 2019 to 21 July 2021. In his position as Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, he is the counterpart to the office of Prosecutor General of the Republic of Crimea, the equivalent position in Russia's Republic of Crimea. Due to the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Mamedov had no ability to exert power over Crimea. Mamedov has also investigated Russian forces in the Russo-Ukrainian War for war crimes.

Alexander Frumkin

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1895-1976 (aged 81)
Occupations: university teacherchemist
Biography: Alexander Naumovich Frumkin was a Soviet Russian electrochemist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1932, founder of the Russian Journal of Electrochemistry Elektrokhimiya and receiver of the Hero of Socialist Labor award. The Russian Academy of Sciences' A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry is named after him.

Mykolas Sleževičius

Years: 1882-1939 (aged 57)
Occupations: lawyerjournalistdiplomatpolitician
Biography: Mykolas Sleževičius was a Lithuanian lawyer, political and cultural figure, and journalist. One of the most influential figures in inter-war Lithuania, he served as the prime minister of Lithuania on three occasions. Taking the helm of the government at a difficult time in 1918 and again in 1919, Sleževičius has been credited with preparing Lithuania for the fights to come and for laying the foundations of the fledgling state.

Lev Sternberg

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1861-1927 (aged 66)
Occupations: ethnographerpolitician
Biography: Lev Yakovlevich Sternberg (Russian: Лев (Хаим-Лейб) Я́ковлевич Ште́рнберг) (May 3 [O.S. April 21] 1861 – August 14, 1927) was a Russian and Soviet 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.

Marina Loshak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1955-.. (age 71)
Occupations: curatorart directorart historianco-collectorcollector
Biography: Marina Devovna Loshak is a Soviet and Russian curator, gallery owner, art manager, collector, museum worker. Director of the Pushkin Museum (2013-2023).

Nikodim Kondakov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1844-1925 (aged 81)
Occupations: archaeologistart historianByzantinistprofessormedievalist
Biography: Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov (Russian: Никоди́м Па́влович Кондако́в; 1 (13) November 1844 – 17 February 1925) was an art historian with special expertise in the history of Russian and Serbian Christian icons. He is remembered as a pioneer among art historians who studied the treasures of Mount Athos like Frenchman Gabriel Millet.

Ivan Pokhitonov

Years: 1850-1923 (aged 73)
Occupations: graphic artistpainter
Biography: Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist, who spent much of his working life in France and Belgium.

Yuly Aykhenvald

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1872-1928 (aged 56)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1894
Occupations: journalistliterary critic
Biography: Yuly Isayevich Aykhenvald was a Russian Jewish literary critic who developed a native brand of Aestheticism. Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov called Aykhenvald "a Russian version of Walter Pater".

Mark Krein

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1908-1989 (aged 81)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1929
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Mark Grigorievich Krein was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for works in operator theory (in close connection with concrete problems coming from mathematical physics), the problem of moments, classical analysis and representation theory.

Aleksandar Belić

Born in: Serbia
Years: 1876-1960 (aged 84)
Occupations: university teacherphilologist
Biography: Aleksandar Belić was a Serbian linguist and academic.

Maria Galina

Born in: Russia
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: poetwritertranslatorprose writerhydrobiologist
Biography: Maria Galina is a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Kalinin (now the city of Tver) and studied marine biology in Odessa. She lived in Bergen for a while, studying salmon.

Alexandre Besredka

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1870-1940 (aged 70)
Occupations: biologistimmunologistphysician
Biography: Alexandre Mikhailovich Besredka was a Ukrainian-French biologist and immunologist born in Odessa. In 1910 he became a citizen of France.

Vladimir de Pachmann

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1848-1933 (aged 85)
Occupations: classical pianist
Biography: Vladimir de Pachmann or Pachman was a Russian pianist of German descent. He is known for performing the works of Chopin and for his eccentric performing style.

Nikolai Chebotaryov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1894-1947 (aged 53)
Occupations: mathematicianscientistexecutiveuniversity teacher
Biography: Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov was a Soviet mathematician. He is best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem.

Stanisław Car

Born in: Poland
Years: 1882-1938 (aged 56)
Occupations: lawyerjudgepolitician
Biography: Stanisław Car was a Polish politician, lawyer, Marshal of the Sejm, deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice.

Anna Pankratova

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1897-1957 (aged 60)
Occupations: historianeducatorpolitician
Biography: Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova was a leading Soviet historian, educator and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. A widely published author, she was editor in chief of the influential Russian historical journal Voprosy Istorii and headed the National Committee of USSR Historians. A member of the Communist Party, she became an elected member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Ignaty Potapenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1856-1929 (aged 73)
Occupations: playwrightwriterjournalist
Biography: Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko, was a Russian writer and playwright.

Mirasadulla Mirgasimov

Born in: Azerbaijan
Years: 1883-1958 (aged 75)
Occupations: surgeon
Biography: Mirasadulla Miralasgar oglu Mirgasimov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet surgeon and scientist. He was one of the founders and the first president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945–1947).

Teodor Teodorov

Born in: Bulgaria
Years: 1859-1924 (aged 65)
Occupations: politicianjudge
Biography: Teodor Ivanov Teodorov was a leading Bulgarian politician and legal expert who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria immediately after the First World War.

Oleg Maltsev

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: lecturerlawyerwriterphilosopherpsychologist
Biography: Oleg Viktorovich Maltsev is a Ukrainian Candidate of Sciences in psychology and philosophy,. He is the academician of the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, author, and criminologist, and a practicing lawyer registered with the Ukrainian National Bar Association.

Lev Pisarzhevsky

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1874-1938 (aged 64)
Occupations: chemist
Biography: Lev Vladimirovich Pisarzhevsky was a Ukrainian Soviet chemist who studied peroxides, peracids, and solutions.

Carol Schmidt

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1846-1928 (aged 82)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Karl Aleksandrovich Shmidt was an Imperial Russian politician active in the Bessarabia Governorate. A Bessarabian German, he was the longest serving mayor of Kishinev (now Chișinău, Moldova), serving from 1877 by 1903. He contributed greatly to its modernization and is considered one of the best mayors in the city's history. He was the father of Alexander Schmidt, who served as mayor of Kishinev between 1917 and 1918.

Gherman Pântea

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1894-1968 (aged 74)
Occupations: military personnellawyerdiplomatpolitician
Biography: Gherman Vasile Pântea was a Bessarabian-born soldier, civil servant and political figure, active in the Russian Empire and Romania. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army during most of World War I, he helped organize the committees of Bessarabian soldiers, oscillating between loyalty to the Russian Provisional Government and the cause of Bessarabian emancipation. Pântea was subsequently Military Director of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, answering to President Ion Inculeț. He personally created a Bessarabian defense force, tasked with combating Bolshevik subversion and Russian intimidation, but also braced for defeat after the October Revolution.

Ion Nistor

Born in: Romania
Years: 1876-1962 (aged 86)
Occupations: historianpolitician
Biography: Ion I. Nistor was a Romanian historian and politician. He was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1915 and a professor at the universities of Cernăuți and Bucharest, while also serving as Minister of State for Bukovina, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Labor, and Minister of Religious Affairs and the Arts with a number of governments from 1918 to 1940.

Marjana Gaponenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1981-.. (age 45)
Occupations: poetwriter
Biography: Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko is a German writer born in Odesa, Ukraine.

Alla Dzhioyeva

Born in: Georgia
Years: 1949-.. (age 77)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Alla Aleksandrovna Dzhioyeva is a South Ossetian politician, who is currently Deputy Prime Minister in the South Ossetian government. She previously served as the Education Minister in 2002–2008. She won the 2011 presidential election, but the Supreme Court annulled the results, alleging that electoral fraud had been committed.

Oksana Mas

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: painterphilosopherartist
Biography: Oksana Mas is a Ukrainian contemporary artist and the organizer of "ArtTogether", a global interactive art project aimed at visualizing the new cultural code of the modern generation and uniting people at a time of political and social turmoil.

Imad Ashur

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1988-.. (age 38)
Occupations: association football coach
Biography: Imad Khaled Ashur is a Ukrainian professional football manager.

Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky

Years: 1863-1937 (aged 74)
Occupations: botanist
Biography: Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky or Volodymyr Ipolytovych Lypsky was a Ukrainian scientist, botanist; a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in 1922–1928, its president) and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the director of the Botanical Gardens of the Odessa University.

Valentyna Danishevska

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 1983
Occupations: jurist
Biography: Valentyna Ivanivna Danishevska is a Ukrainian lawyer and judge who served as Chairwoman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from 2017 to 2021. She is the first woman to hold the position of the Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

Kita Abashidze

Born in: Georgia
Years: 1870-1917 (aged 47)
Occupations: literary criticopinion journalistpoliticiancriticjournalist
Biography: Prince Kita Abashidze (Georgian: კიტა აბაშიძე; 16 January 1870 – 17 December 1917) was a Georgian literary critic, journalist, and politician.

Wasyl Petiowka

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 59)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Vasyl Vasyliovych Petiovka is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012.

Constantin Mimi

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1868-1935 (aged 67)
Occupations: winegrowerengineerpolitician
Biography: Constantin Mimi was a Bessarabian politician and winemaker, whose family had noble origins.

Pavlo Hrytsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: university teacherdialectologistphilologistlinguistukrainianist
Biography: Pavlo Yuhymovych Hrytsenko is a Ukrainian linguist, doctor of Philology, professor, director of Institute for the Ukrainian Language (Kyiv). Born in Matroska, Izmail Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Hrytsenko is a specialist in dialectology of the Ukrainian language, typology of Slavic dialect systems, theory of linguistic geography, dialectal textology and textography, history of linguistics. He is a co-executor of The Slavic Linguistic Atlas, vol. 3, 4а, 4б, 5, 6, 8 (1994–2009).

Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1861-1924 (aged 63)
Occupations: exploreruniversity teachergeologistpaleontologistbotanist
Biography: Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov was a Russian geologist, stratigrapher and palaeontologist.

Vitaly Barvinenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1981-.. (age 45)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Vitaliy Dmytrovych Barvinenko is a Ukrainian politician and People's Deputy of Ukraine, the first head of the Odesa District Council. He served as a Member of Parliament across the VI to VIII convocations. Vitaly holds a Doctorate in Law.

Israel Guri

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1893-1965 (aged 72)
Occupations: trade unionistpolitician
Biography: Yisrael Guri was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1965.

Konstantin Konik

Born in: Estonia
Years: 1873-1936 (aged 63)
Occupations: physicianstatespersonpoliticiansurgeon
Biography: Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.

Juozas Gabrys

Born in: Lithuania
Years: 1880-1951 (aged 71)
Occupations: juristopinion journalistpolitician
Biography: Juozas Gabrys or Juozas Gabrys-Paršaitis was a Lithuanian politician and diplomat, best remembered for his efforts to popularize the idea of Lithuania's independence in the West during World War I.

Nariman Dzhelyal

Born in: Uzbekistan
Years: 1980-.. (age 46)
Enrolled in Odessa National University: Studied in 2005
Occupations: presenterjournalistteacherpolitician
Biography: Nariman Dzhelyal Enverovych is Ukraine's Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, the first deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, journalist and activist.

Vadym Merikov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1976-.. (age 50)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Vadym Ivanovych Merikov is a Ukrainian politician. He is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine and served as the governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast from July 28, 2014, to June 29, 2016.

Mykola Vilinsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1888-1956 (aged 68)
Occupations: music educatorcomposer
Biography: Mykola Mykolayovych Vilinsky was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer who held senior chairs at the Odesa Conservatory and later the Kyiv Conservatory. He wrote articles on Ukrainian and Moldovan music, and was a music critic and an expert on the works of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko.

Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1860-1934 (aged 74)
Occupations: zionistlawyerpolitician
Biography: Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum was a Jewish activist and attorney, member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907, Lithuanian Minister for Jewish Affairs from June 29, 1923 to his resignation on February 12, 1924 and Lithuanian consul in Palestine.

Nicolae Donici

Born in: Moldova
Years: 1874-1960 (aged 86)
Occupations: astronomer
Biography: Nicolae N. Donici was a Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia.

Alexander Muchnik

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1954-.. (age 72)
Occupations: human rights defenderlawyerjournalistphilosopher
Biography: Alexander Muchnik is a lawyer, human rights activist and journalist.

Aryeh Altman

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1902-1982 (aged 80)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Aryeh Altman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal between 1951 and 1965.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Albov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1866-1897 (aged 31)
Occupations: botanical collectorexplorergeographerresearcherbotanist
Biography: Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov was a Russian botanist and geographer. He made his mark first as an explorer of the Caucasus, to which he made several extensive trips financed by the Swiss Botanist Society, and later, after having moved to Argentina in 1895, of the Southern regions of South America. He is credited with being arguably the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and (writing in Russian and French), described its flora.

Vladimir Matveevich Gessen

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1868-1920 (aged 52)
Occupations: university teacherjuristpolitician
Biography: Vladimir Matveevich Gessen was a Russian jurist and politician. He was the country's first theoretician of constitutional law and was instrumental for the spread of the idea of constitutional, representative government in Russia.

Joshua L. Goldberg

Born in: Belarus
Years: 1896-1994 (aged 98)
Occupations: rabbimilitary officer
Biography: Joshua Louis Goldberg was a Belarusian-born American rabbi, the first to be commissioned as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career.

Ilya Rubanovich

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1859-1922 (aged 63)
Occupations: university teacherrevolutionaryphysicistopinion journalistpolitician
Biography: Ilya Adolfovich Rubanovich was a Russian revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') in the 1880s. In 1881, this group assassinated Tsar Aleksandr II. During the repression which followed, Rubanovich fled abroad, eventually settling in Paris, France, and becoming a French citizen. There he co-founded the Group of 'Old Members of The People's Will' ('Gruppa Starykh Narodovol’tsev') in 1891, together with P.L. Lavrov, N.S. Rusanov and others. In 1900 he was instrumental in founding the Agrarian Socialist League.

Heorhii Afanasiev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1848-1925 (aged 77)
Occupations: historianbankerjournalistdiplomat
Biography: Georgiy Yemelyanovich Afanasyev was a Ukrainian and Russian historian, politician, and diplomat. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (1918). Received a master's degree for his thesis: "The main points of the ministerial Turgot" (1884); and his doctoral dissertation was: "The Conditions of the Grain Trade in France at the End of the 18th Century" (1892). From 1888 he lectured at the Odessa University. He read in Odessa and Kiev.

Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1859-1917 (aged 58)
Occupations: physicianzoologist
Biography: Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz was a Polish zoologist who helped establish an evolutionary approach to the study of zoology in Lviv.

Samuil Shatunovsky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1859-1929 (aged 70)
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Samuil Osipovich Shatunovsky was a Russian and Soviet mathematician. He was born in Velikaia Znamenka, in a poor Jewish family as the 9th child. He completed secondary education in Kherson, then studied for a year in Rostov and moved to Saint Petersburg seeking a university degree. There he studied in several technical universities. Engineering however did not attract Shatunovsky and he dedicated himself to mathematics, voluntarily attending lectures by Pafnuty Chebyshev. Shatunovsky could not complete any university program due to lack of funds. He later attempted to obtain a university degree in Switzerland, but failed for the same reason. After returning from Switzerland, he lived in small Russian towns, earning by private lessons. In the meantime, he wrote his first mathematical papers and sent some of them to the Imperial Novorossiia University. Their quality was acknowledged; Shatunovsky was admitted to the university, received financial support, obtained a degree and was appointed as staff member in 1905. In 1917, he became a professor and continued working at in Odessa through the rest of his life.

Grigol Lordkipanidze

Born in: Georgia
Years: 1881-1937 (aged 56)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Grigol Lordkipanidze was a Georgian politician and author.

Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1870-1908 (aged 38)
Occupations: astronomer
Biography: Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky was an astronomer from the Russian Empire.