51 Notable alumni of
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
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Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology is 917th in the world, 324th in Europe, and 23rd in Russia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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- university teachereconomistphysicistchemist
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered (germanium, gallium and scandium).
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Aleksey Tolstoy
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- politicianscreenwriterplaywrightscience fiction writerwriter
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer whose works span across many genres, but mainly belonged to science fiction and historical fiction.
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Andrey Myagkov
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- drama teacherpainteractorpedagoguewriter
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Andrey Vasilyevich Myagkov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and writer. He is best known for his roles in famous films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, such as The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979) and A Cruel Romance (1984).
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Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
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- pedagoguepublishertravelerphotographerchemist
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
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Vladimir Korolenko
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- prose writerwriterautobiographeropinion journalistjournalist
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Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a writer, journalist, human rights soldier and humanitarian of a Ukrainian origin in the Russian Empire. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.
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Sergey Lazo
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- partisanmilitary personnelrevolutionary
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Sergey Georgiyevich Lazo (Russian: Серге́й Гео́ргиевич Лазо́, Romanian: Serghei Lazo; March 7, 1894 – April or May 1920) was a Russian nobleman, officer of the Imperial Russian Army, and Bolshevik leader in the October 1917 Revolution in the Russian Far East.
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Abram Ioffe
- Enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1902
- Occupations
- physicistinventor
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Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics, many of which became independent institutes.
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Sergey Martinson
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- actor
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Sergey Aleksandrovich Martinson was a Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).
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Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
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- engineerpoliticianeconomist
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Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Soviet scientist, statesman, revolutionary, Old Bolshevik, and state figure as well as a geographer and writer.
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Alexander Lodygin
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- entrepreneurengineerinventor
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Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, known after immigration to US as Alexandre de Lodyguine was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb.
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Pinhas Rutenberg
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- writercivil engineerengineer
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Pinhas Rutenberg was a Russian businessman, hydraulic engineer and political activist. In Russia He was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and fled due to the Bolshevik revolution. During World War I, he was among the founders of the Jewish Legion and of the American Jewish Congress. Later, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, and used his education and diplomacy to obtain a concession for production and distribution of electric power and founded the Palestine Electric Corporation in 1923, currently the Israel Electric Corporation. A vocal and committed Zionist, Rutenberg also participated in establishing the Haganah, the main Jewish militia to defend Jews from Arab attacks, and founded Palestine Airways. He subsequently served as a president of the Jewish National Council.
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Aleksandr Mazin
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- poetscience fiction writer
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Alexander Vladimirovich Mazin is a Ukrainian-born Russian writer, poet, and songwriter, specializing in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history.
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Mykola Skrypnyk
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- diplomatstatesperson
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Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk, was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and later led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial. He also was the Head of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat, equivalent to the modern-day position of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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Germain Henri Hess
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- physicianchemistmineralogist
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Germain Henri Hess was a Swiss-Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess' law, an early principle of thermochemistry.
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Yevgeny Rein
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- screenwriterprose writerpoet
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Yevgeny Borisovich Rein is a Russian poet and writer, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997). His poetry won the Pushkin Prize of Russia, Tsarskoe Selo Art Prize (1997), or the Russian National Prize - the Poet (2012).
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Alexander Nesis
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- entrepreneur
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Alexander Nesis is a Europe-based entrepreneur and the largest stakeholder of a private equity firm ICT Holding Ltd. (Cyprus). He was the founder and the president of the ICT Group, a private equity entity based and operated in Russia from 1991 until 2013.
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Pyotr Lebedev
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev was a Russian physicist. His name was also transliterated as Peter Lebedew and Peter Lebedev. Lebedev was the creator of the first scientific school in Russia.
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Stefan Ossowiecki
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- engineerchemist
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Stefan Ossowiecki was a Polish engineer who was, during his lifetime, promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics. Two notable persons who credited his claims were pioneering French parapsychologist Gustav Geley and Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, who called Ossowiecki "the most positive of psychics."
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Mikhail Solomentsev
- Enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1935
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Solomentsev was a high-ranking Soviet politician and statesman.
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Anatoly Naiman
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- writertranslatorprose writerpoet
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Anatoly Genrikhovich Naiman was a Russian poet, translator and writer. He was one of the four Akhmatova's Orphans.
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Jan Stanisławski
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- art educatoruniversity teacherpainter
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Jan Grzegorz Stanisławski was a Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies. In 1906 he became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
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Joseph Deniker
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- naturalistracial theoristbotanistanthropologistbiologist
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Joseph Yegorovich Deniker was a Russian-French naturalist and anthropologist, known primarily for his attempts to develop highly detailed maps of race in Europe.
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Mammad Hasan Hajinski
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- engineerpoliticiandiplomat
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Mammad Hasan Jafargulu oglu Hajinski was an Azerbaijani architect and statesman. He also served as a Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) and the last Prime Minister of ADR.
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Nikolai Gorbunov
- Enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1917
- Occupations
- politicianchemistcivil servant
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Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov was a Soviet politician, chemist, engineer and academic; at one time personal secretary to leader Vladimir Lenin.
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Nina Katerli
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- opinion journalistpublic figurehuman rights activistwriterprose writer
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Nina Katerli was a Russian writer, publicist, and human rights activist.
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Edward Woyniłłowicz
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- politicianpatron of the arts
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Edward Woyniłłowicz was a Polish-Belarusian landowner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, public figure and the funder of the landmark "Red Church" of St. Simon and St. Helena on Independence Square in Minsk.
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Mikhail Zingarevich
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Mikhail Gennadyevich Zingarevich is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and invested in the forest industry, gold mining, and high-tech projects. He is a member of the board of directors of the Ilim Group and an honorary professor at the Highest School of Technology and Energy at the Saint Petersburg State University for Technology and Design.
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Ludwig Martens
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- engineerpoliticiandiplomat
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Ludwig Christian Alexander Karl Martens was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and engineer.
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Steponas Kairys
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- engineerpolitician
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Steponas Kairys was a Lithuanian engineer, nationalist, and social democrat. He was among the 20 men to sign the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918.
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Stanisław Zaremba
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- engineeruniversity teachermathematician
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Stanisław Zaremba was a Polish mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. He was one of the mathematicians who contributed to the success of the Polish School of Mathematics through his teaching and organizational skills as well as through his research. Apart from his research works, Zaremba wrote many university textbooks and monographies.
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Dmitri Bobyshev
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- poet
- Biography
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Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic.
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Piotr Wilniewczyc
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- engineer
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Piotr Wilniewczyc was a Polish engineer and arms designer. Among his most successful designs were the Vis-35 pistol, commonly known as the Radom for the arsenal in which it was produced, and the Mors submachine gun.
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Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski
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- journalistplaywright
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Vacłaŭ Leanardavič Ivanoŭski was a Belarusian political and public figure of the first half of the 20th century.
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Yury Yarov
- Enrolled in Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yury Fyodorovich Yarov is a Russian politician who was a deputy prime minister from 1992 until 1996. Previously he was the 4th Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States from 6 November 1999 to 14 July 2004. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
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Nicholas Minorsky
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- engineeruniversity teachermathematician
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Nicolas Minorsky was a Russian American control theory mathematician, engineer and applied scientist. He is best known for his theoretical analysis and first proposed application of PID controllers in the automatic steering systems for U.S. Navy ships.
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Nikolai Zlatovratsky
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- writer
- Biography
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Nikolai Nikolaievich Zlatovratsky, was a Russian writer.
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Bolesław Wysłouch
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- politician
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Bolesław Wysłouch was a Polish nobleman, peasant advocate, a socialist, a senator and co-establisher of the original Polish Peasants Party.
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Mussa Ekzekov
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- businesspersonpublic figurepatron of the arts
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Mussa Khabalevich Ekzekov is a Soviet and Russian scientist, businessperson, philanthropist and social activist.
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Mečislovas Gedvilas
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- politician
- Biography
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Mečislovas Gedvilas was a Lithuanian Communist politician who collaborated with occupying Soviet forces. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR from 1940 to 1956. Rivalry between him and Antanas Sniečkus, the first secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party, led to his demotion to Minister of Education (1957–1973).
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Mikhail Brusnev
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- engineerpolitician
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Mikhail Ivanovich Brusnev was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist, explorer and an early leader of the Russian Social Democratic movement from which the Bolshevik organisation and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union originated.
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Alexei Purin
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- poetliterary critic
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Alexei Purin is a Russian poet and critic.
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Ihnat Kančeŭski
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- opinion journalistpoetphilosopher
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Ihnat Kančeŭski was a Belarusian poet, philosopher and publicist who is regarded as a leading thinker within the Belarusian independence movement of the early 20th century.
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Eugenia Kumacheva
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- chemistuniversity teacherresearcher
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Eugenia Eduardovna Kumacheva OC FRS FRSC is a University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Her research interests span across the fields of fundamental and applied polymers science, nanotechnology, microfluidics, and interface chemistry. She was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2008 "for the design and development of new materials with many applications including targeted drug delivery for cancer treatments and materials for high density optical data storage". In 2011, she published a book on the Microfluidic Reactors for Polymer Particles co-authored with Piotr Garstecki. She is Canadian Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials (Tier 1). She is Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC).
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Adam Hurynowicz
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- translatorpoet
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Adam Hilary Kalistavich Hurynowicz was a poet and folklorist from the Russian Empire. He was best known for his Polish, Belarusian and Russian-language poems and folkloristics.
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Piotr Drzewiecki
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- politician
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Piotr Drzewiecki was the mayor of Warsaw, also known as the President of Warsaw (Polish: Prezydent Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy), from 1918 to 1921. An engineer and social activist, he was also an organizer of the civil defense of Warsaw in 1920 against the invasion by the Red Army. As mayor of Warsaw during the struggle of women's suffrage in Poland in 1918, he promised that service in the city administrative posts would become open to women beginning January 1, 1918.
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Paweł Potocki
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- engineergeologist
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Pavel Pototsky was a Polish engineer, oil specialist, based in Baku. He initiated and oversaw the Bibiheybat Bay drying project. In 1929, Pototsky was awarded the first prize for the best construction work by the All-Union Exhibition of National Economic Achievements of the USSR, and in 1931 he was awarded the Order of Lenin.
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Valentyn Sadovskyi
- Years
- 1886-1947 (aged 61)
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- politiciangeographereconomistjournalistpedagogue
- Biography
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Valentyn Sadovsky was a politician, scientist, journalist, economist of Ukraine. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1935) and the Ukrainian Science Institute in Warsaw.
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Aaron Samuel Liberman
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- writerjournalistactivist
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Aaron Samuel Liebermann, also known by his pen names Bar Drora and Daniel Ish Ḥamudot and later as Arthur Freeman, was a socialist author, Hebrew translator, and political essayist. A pioneer of Jewish socialism and the Jewish labour movement, he was described by Rudolf Rocker and Ber Borochov as the "father of Jewish socialism".
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Yevhen Neronovych
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- politician
- Biography
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Yevhen Vasilevich Neronovych was a Ukrainian politician, Bolshevik activist, member of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviet government.
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Kazimierz Tyszka
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- politician
- Biography
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Kazimierz Tyszka was Polish Minister of Railways, 1923–25, in Władysław Grabski's government.
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Mikhail Sazhin
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- politician
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Mikhail Petrovich Sazhin, also known by the pseudonym Armand Ross, was a Russian revolutionary anarchist. An activist during his years as a student, he was expelled and exiled for his revolutionary activities, forcing him to flee the country to Switzerland, where he became a disciple of the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. During the 1870s, he participated in a series of uprisings, including those of the Lyon and Paris Communes, the 1874 Bologna insurrection and Herzegovina uprising, before returning to Russia in order to ignite an insurrection there. He was arrested for smuggling revolutionary literature across the border and tried as part of the Trial of the 193, which resulted in him getting exiled to Siberia. He spent the subsequent decades working in a number of steamship companies throughout Russia, eventually returning to European Russia and participating in a number of radical publishing ventures. He spent his final years in Moscow, attempting to publish Bakunin's literary works and working as an activist for the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers.
