100 Notable alumni of
Odessa National University
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Odessa National University is 428th in the world, 147th in Europe, and 5th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Odessa National University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Leon Trotsky
- Occupations
- writermilitary personneldiplomathistorianrevolutionary
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Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, journalist and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union. Alongside Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky was widely considered the most prominent Soviet figure and was de facto second-in-command during the early years of the Russian Soviet Republic. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, his thought and writings inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism.
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Sergei Witte
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- politicianstatesperson
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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.
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George Gamou
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- inventorwriterbiochemistastrophysicistphysicist
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George Gamow, sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory. Gamow discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay by quantum tunneling, invented the liquid drop model and 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 molecular genetics.
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Ivan Sechenov
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- philosopherphysiologistengineermathematicianpsychologist
- Biography
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Doctor Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov, was a Russian psychologist, physiologist, and medical scientist.
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Gleb Pavlovsky
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- historianpolitical scientistlectureropinion journalistjournalist
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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. Since then he was a critic of the Russian government.
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Waldemar Haffkine
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- bacteriologistbotanistmicrobiologistphysicianimmunologist
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Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, 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.
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Aleko Konstantinov
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied law
- Occupations
- prose writertranslatorwriterjournalistlawyer
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Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction.
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Natasha Yarovenko
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- actorfilm actormodel
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Natalia "Natasha" Yarovenko is a Ukrainian born actress residing in Spain.
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Nariman Narimanov
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- writerpoliticianopinion journalistphysicianplaywright
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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.
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Nikolay Gamaleya
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- biologistepidemiologistphysicianvirologist
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Nikolay Fyodorovich Gamaleya was a Russian and Soviet physician and scientist who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research.
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Nikolay Zelinsky
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- chemistuniversity teacherinventor
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Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky was a Russian and Soviet chemist. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).
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Ihor Klymenko
- Occupations
- police officer
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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.
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Svetlana Martynchik
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- painterwriter
- Biography
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Max Frei is the pen name of Svetlana Yuryevna Martynchik (Russian: Светла́на Ю́рьевна Марты́нчик; Ukrainian: Світлана Юріївна Мартинчик) (born 1965 in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union), a fantasy writer from Odesa, 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 Steopin (1967—2018).
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Krste Petkov Misirkov
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- writerhistorian
- Biography
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Krste Petkov Misirkov was a philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer from the region of Macedonia.
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Efim Geller
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- chess player
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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. His wife Oksana was a ballet dancer while his son Alexander was also a chess master. Geller was coach to World Champions Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. He was also an author.
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Olga Kovitidi
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- In 1986 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerstatespersonjuristpolitician
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Olga Fyodorovna Kovitidi, is a Ukrainian-Russian 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.
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Alexander Bogomolets
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- university teachernon-fiction writerimmunologistpathologistphysician
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Bogomolets was a Soviet and Ukrainian pathophysiologist.
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Leon Pinsker
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied law
- Occupations
- journalistwriterphysicianpolitical activist
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Leon Pinsker was a physician and Zionist activist.
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Ali Mohamed Shein
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Mariusz Zaruski
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- painterwritermilitary officermountaineerphotographer
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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.
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Danylo Zabolotny
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- biologistmicrobiologistbotanist
- Biography
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Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny was a Ukrainian 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.
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Andriy Kostin
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- politicianlawyer
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Andriy Yevhenovych Kostin is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. As of 2022, he is a People's Deputy of Ukraine since he was elected to it 2019. Kostin was a candidate in the 2021 competition to become the new head of the Ukrainian Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO). Civil society organisations Transparency International Ukraine, Automaidan, Anti-Corruption Action Center and Dejure stated that Kostin did not satisfy the integrity criteria of the competition. Kostin was not selected. Kostin was the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Legal Policy Committee for two years, from 2020 to 2022. On 27 July 2022, Kostin was voted by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
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Alexander Granovskiy
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- politician
- Biography
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Oleksandr Hranovskyi, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.
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Dmitri Golubov
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- politician
- Biography
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Dmitri Golubov is a Ukrainian politician and former Member of the Parliament 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.
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Boris Kaufman
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- banker
- Biography
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Borys Rafailovych Kaufman, is a Ukrainian businessperson, shareholder at Vertex United.
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Volodymyr Yavorivsky
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- writerpoliticianscreenwriterpoetjournalist
- Biography
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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, he later joined the before joining the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
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Irina Ratushinskaya
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- writerscreenwriterpoet
- Biography
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Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.
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Yuriy Karmazin
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Yurii Karmazin was a Ukrainian politician and judge. Karmazin served four terms as a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
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Maxim Kalashnikov
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- writerfuturistYouTuberpresenterjournalist
- Biography
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Kucherenko, better known by the pen name Maxim Kalashnikov (Макси́м Кала́шников), is a Russian writer, publicist, and political activist.
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Khosrov bey Sultanov
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1903
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1911
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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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.
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Nasib bey Yusifbeyli
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- politician
- Biography
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Nasib bey Yusif bey oghlu Yusifbeyli or Usubbeyov (Azerbaijani: Usubbəyov; 5 July 1881 – 31 May 1920) Azerbaijani publicist, statesman and major political figure in Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
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Andrey Stavnitser
- Years
- 1982-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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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.
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Mykola Arkas
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- naval officercomposerwriterpoethistorian
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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.
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Wincenty Rzymowski
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- journalistpoliticianopinion journalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Wincenty Rzymowski was a Polish politician and writer. Rzymowski was one of the many faces of Stalinism in postwar Poland.
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Lev Alburt
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- coachwriterchess playernon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Lev Osipovich Alburt is a 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.
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Petre Melikishvili
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- chemist
- Biography
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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.
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Pyotr Shirshov
- Occupations
- explorermarine biologistpoliticianzoologist
- Biography
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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).
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Moses Schönfinkel
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- logicianmathematician
- Biography
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Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel was a logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic.
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Kadish Luz
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- military personnelpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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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.
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Georgi Iwanowitsch Tschelpanow
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1887
- Occupations
- philosopherpsychologist
- Biography
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Georgy Ivanovich Chelpanov was a Russian Imperial and Soviet psychologist, philosopher and logician.
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Leonid Plyushch
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- human rights activistmathematician
- Biography
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Leonid Ivanovych Plyushch was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident.
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Mykola Vasylenko
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- lawyerhistorianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Mykola Prokopovych Vasylenko was a Ukrainian academician historian and law professor, important public and political figure. He was a temporary Otaman of Council of Ministers (Prime Minister of Ukraine), minister of Education, and director of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
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Alexander Frumkin
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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.
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Gyunduz Mamedov
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- jurist
- Biography
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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.
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Mordechai Namir
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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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.
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Lev Sternberg
- Occupations
- politicianethnographer
- Biography
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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.
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Mykolas Sleževičius
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- journalistlawyerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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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.
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Nikodim Kondakov
- Occupations
- archaeologistmedievalistprofessorByzantinistart historian
- Biography
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Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov (Russian: Никоди́м Па́влович Кондако́в; 1 (13) November 1844, Olshanka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire– 17 February 1925, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was an art historian with special expertise in the history of Russian and Serbian Christian icons. He is remembered as a pioneer among art historian who studied the treasures of Mount Athos like Frenchman Gabriel Millet.
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Yuly Aykhenvald
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1894
- Occupations
- literary criticjournalist
- Biography
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Yuly Isayevich Aykhenvald, Aikhenvald, or Eichenwald 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".
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Ivan Pokhitonov
- Years
- 1850-1923 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- paintergraphic artist
- Biography
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Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov was a Russian (Ukrainian by origin) landscape painter and graphic artist, who spent much of his working life in France and Belgium.
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Mark Krein
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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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.
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Aleksandar Belić
- Occupations
- philologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Aleksandar Belić was a Serbian linguist and academic.
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Alexandre Besredka
- Occupations
- biologistphysicianimmunologist
- Biography
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Alexandre Mikhailovich Besredka was a Ukrainian-French biologist and immunologist born in Odessa. In 1910 he became a citizen of France.
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Carol Schmidt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carol Schmidt was an Imperial Russian politician in what is now Moldova. He was the longest serving mayor of Chișinău, being the mayor of the capital from 1877 by 1903, with a special contribution to the modernization of the city. He was a Bessarabian German and is considered one of the best mayors Chișinău ever had. He was the father of Alexander Schmidt, also mayor of Chișinău, between 1917 and 1918.
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Maria Galina
- Occupations
- prose writertranslatorwriterpoetcritic
- Biography
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Maria Galina is a Russian writer. 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.
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Vladimir de Pachmann
- Occupations
- classical pianist
- Biography
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Vladimir de Pachmann or Pachman was a pianist from the Russian Empire of German ethnicity, especially noted for performing the works of Chopin and for his eccentric performing style.
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Nikolai Chebotaryov
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov was a Soviet mathematician. He is best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem.
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Stanisław Car
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Stanisław Car was a Polish politician, lawyer, Marshal of the Sejm, deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice.
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Teodor Teodorov
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Teodor Ivanov Teodorov was a leading Bulgarian politician and legal expert who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria immediately after the First World War.
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Mirasadulla Mirgasimov
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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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).
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Ignaty Potapenko
- Occupations
- journalistwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko, was a Russian writer and playwright.
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Anna Pankratova
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianeducator
- Biography
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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.
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Ion Nistor
- Occupations
- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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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.
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Gherman Pântea
- Occupations
- lawyermilitary personnelpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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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.
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Lev Pisarzhevsky
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Lev Vladimirovich Pisarzhevsky was a Ukrainian Soviet chemist who studied peroxides, peracids, and solutions.
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Marjana Gaponenko
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko is a German writer born in Odesa, Ukraine.
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Alla Dzhioyeva
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alla Aleksandrovna Dzhioyeva is a South Ossetian teacher turned 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.
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Oleg Maltsev
- Occupations
- writerlawyerlecturerscience communicatorpsychologist
- Biography
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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. He teaches a variation of the Fate Analysis method developed by Hungarian psychoanalyst Leopold Szondi through his organization called Applied Sciences Association. He is the chief editor of interdisciplinary journal Baudrillard Now, editorial member of French journal Dogma, editorial member of Expedition Journal and member of international editorial advisory board of the American Behavioral Scientist among other publications.
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Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky
- Years
- 1863-1937 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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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.
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Oksana Mas
- Occupations
- painterartistphilosopher
- Biography
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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.
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Valentyna Danishevska
- Enrolled in Odessa National University
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- jurist
- Biography
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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.
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Kita Abashidze
- Occupations
- literary criticjournalist
- Biography
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Prince Kita Abashidze (Georgian: კიტა აბაშიძე) (16 January 1870 – 17 December 1917) was a Georgian literary critic, journalist, and politician.
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Constantin Mimi
- Occupations
- politicianengineerwinegrower
- Biography
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Constantin Mimi was a Bessarabian politician and winemaker, whose family had noble origins.
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Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov
- Occupations
- university teacherexplorerbotanistpaleontologistgeologist
- Biography
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Mykola Ivanovych Andrusiv or Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov was a Ukrainian geologist, stratigrapher, and palaeontologist.
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Wasyl Petiowka
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vasyl Vasyliovych Petiovka is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 12 December 2012.
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Marina Loshak
- Occupations
- art directorcuratorcollectorco-collectorart historian
- Biography
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Marina Devovna Loshak is a Soviet and Russian curator, gallery owner, art manager, collector, museum worker. Director of the Pushkin Museum (2013-2023).
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Pavlo Hrytsenko
- Occupations
- dialectologistuniversity teacherukrainianistlinguistphilologist
- Biography
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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).
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Juozas Gabrys
- Occupations
- politicianopinion journalistjurist
- Biography
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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.
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Vadym Merikov
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Yisrael Guri
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionist
- Biography
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Yisrael Guri was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1965.
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Anton Crihan
- Occupations
- politicianlawyereconomist
- Biography
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Anton Crihan was a Bessarabian politician, lawyer, author, economist, professor and journalist. He was a member of Sfatul Țării (1917), adviser to the Secretary of State for Agriculture in the General Directorate of the Republic of Moldova (1917), deputy in the Parliament of Romania (1919, 1920, 1922, 1932), adviser to the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains (1932–1933), professor at the Polytechnic University of Iasi and at the Faculty of Agronomy in Chisinau (1934–1940).
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Konstantin Konik
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.
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Vitaly Barvinenko
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- politician
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Vitaly Dmitrievich Barvinenko is a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
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Mykola Vilinsky
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- composermusic teacher
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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.
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Alexander Muchnik
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- journalistlawyerhuman rights activistphilosopher
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Alexander Muchnik is a lawyer, human rights activist and journalist.
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Nicolae Donici
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- astronomer
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Nicolae Donici was a Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia. Nicolae Donici (Donitch) was born into an old family of Romanian nobles from Bessarabia in the Petricani region of Chişinău. He graduated from the University in Odesa (Ukraine). Subsequently, he served as state clerk in Saint Petersburg (Russia). Concomitantly he had his own private observatory. He conducted research in countries such as Spain, Russia, Portugal, Indonesia, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria and United States. He was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy and doctor honoris causa of the University of Heidelberg and of the Coimbra Institute in Portugal. His main scientific interest were the Sun and its eclipses, planetary astronomy, zodiacal light.The main astronomical instrument în Dubăsarii Vechi in the InterWars period was a big spectroheliograph, which allowed to make first class photographs of the Sun and study the spectra of the Sun. Some American historians supposed, that Donitch, being close to some governmental circles in Saint Petersburg before 1917, particularly to the family of Obolensky, which was close to the Czar family, was implied in Public Diplomacy in order to convince Nationalist circles in Egypt to liberate from Colonial occupation by Ottoman Empire. The Astronomical observatory in Dubăsarii Vechi (Bessarabia), directed by Nicolae Donici enjoyed a number of astronomers from everywhere: the German: Emanuel von der Pahlen, the Russian emigrants: Lev Ocoulitch and Andrei Baikov. During the inter Wars period the observatory in Dubăsarii Vechi served also as a meteorological station which sent regularly reports to Central Institute of Meteorology in Bucharest. The main meteorologist was Nina Gouma. Donitch was a member of the International Union for Solar research, of the International Astronomical Union (since its first Congress in 1922), of the Romanian Academy (since 1922). In 1948 he was excluded from the Academy by communist authorities of Romania. He refugeed to France (Nice) where he continued to work in the collaboration with Henri Chrétien and other French astronomers. In 1991 he was reestablished to the Romanian Academy. The place and exact date of dye of Nicolas Donitch was established by Magda Stavinschi in collaboration with French astronomer Francoise Le Guet Tully He was married to Maria Perks. The asteroid 9494 Donici is named after him. The most important publications were signed as Donitch
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Albov
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- explorergeographerbotanist
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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.
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Joshua L. Goldberg
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- military officerrabbi
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Joshua Louis Goldberg was a Belarusian-born American rabbi, who was the first rabbi 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.
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Vladimir Matveevich Gessen
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- university teacherpoliticianjurist
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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.
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Aryeh Altman
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- politician
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Aryeh Altman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal between 1951 and 1965.
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Heorhii Afanasiev
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- journalistbankerhistoriandiplomat
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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.
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Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum
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- politicianlawyer
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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.
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Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz
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- zoologistphysician
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Józef Nusbaum-Hilarowicz was a Polish zoologist who helped establish an evolutionary approach to the study of zoology in Lviv.
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Samuil Shatunovsky
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- university teachermathematician
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Samuil Osipovich Shatunovsky was a Russian Empire and Soviet mathematician. He was born in Velyka Znamianka, Ukraine in a poor Jewish family as the 9th child. He completed secondary education in Kherson, Ukraine; then studied for a year in Rostov, Russia and moved to Saint Petersburg seeking 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 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 Odesa 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 the Odesa University through the rest of his life.
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Ilya Rubanovich
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- physicistrevolutionaryuniversity teacherpoliticianopinion journalist
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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.
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Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky
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- astronomer
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Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky was an astronomer from the Russian Empire.
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Bershadski
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- lawyerjuristhistorianuniversity teacher
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Bershadski was a Russian Empire historian and jurist.
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Grigol Lordkipanidze
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- politician
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Grigol Lordkipanidze was a Georgian politician and author.
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Eli Shechtman
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- writer
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Eli Schechtman was a Yiddish writer. He defined the purpose of his work as follows: "My mission in Jewish literature was and still is... to show to those who negate the power of the Galut, how mighty – spiritually and physically – were the generations who grew up in that Galut, even in the most godforsaken places."
