100 Notable alumni of
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
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V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is 344th in the world, 118th in Europe, and 4th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv 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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Józef Piłsudski
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1885
- Occupations
- military officermilitary personnelpoliticianstatespersonmilitary leader
- Biography
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Józef Klemens Piłsudski was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he became an increasingly dominant figure in Polish politics and exerted significant influence on shaping the country's foreign policy. Piłsudski is viewed as a father of the Second Polish Republic, which was re-established in 1918, 123 years after the final partition of Poland in 1795, and was considered de facto leader (1926–1935) of the Second Republic as the Minister of Military Affairs.
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Andrii Biletskyi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andriy Yevheniiovych Biletsky is a Ukrainian far-right politician. He is the leader of political party National Corps. He was the first commander of the volunteer militia Azov Battalion, which he founded in 2014, and a co-founder of the nationalist movement Social-National Assembly. From 2014 until 2019, Biletsky was a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
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Yevheniy Murayev
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yevheniy Volodymyrovych Murayev is a Ukrainian politician and media owner. He was the leader of the now-banned political party Nashi.
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Mykola Lysenko
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1860-1861
- Occupations
- ethnomusicologistmusic educatorconductorcomposerclassical composer
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Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival, in the vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia as well as Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic.
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Mykola Kostomarov
- Occupations
- opinion journalisthistoriancritichistoriographerpoet
- Biography
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Mykola Ivanovych Kostomarov or Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov (Russian: Николай Иванович Костомаров) was one of the most distinguished Russian–Ukrainian historians, one of the first anti-Normanists, and the father of modern Ukrainian historiography. He was a professor of Russian history at the St. Vladimir University of Kiev and later at the St. Petersburg University, an Active State Councillor of Russia, an author of many books, including his biography of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, research on Stepan Razin, and his fundamental three-volume Russian history in the biographies of its most important figures (Russian: Русская история в жизнеописаниях её главнейших деятелей).
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Volodymyr Sosiura
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- translatorpoetwriter
- Biography
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Volodymyr Mykolaiovych Sosiura was a Ukrainian lyric poet, writer, veteran of Ukrainian-Soviet war.
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Michail Elizarov
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- prose writerwritersinger-songwritertelevision directorman of letters
- Biography
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Mikhail Yuryevich Elizarov – is a modern Russian writer and singer-songwriter, laureate of the Russian Booker Prize in 2008 for the novel The Librarian.
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Oles Honchar
- Years
- 1918-1995 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistpoetcriticshort story writer
- Biography
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Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
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Hryhir Tiutiunnyk
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- writerjournalistscreenwriter
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Hryhir Mykhaylovych Tiutiunnyk was a Ukrainian writer, brother of Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk.
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Borys Hrinchenko
- Years
- 1863-1910 (aged 47)
- Occupations
- politicianlexicographerwriteranthropologistlinguist
- Biography
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Borys Dmytrovych Hrinchenko was a classical Ukrainian prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and ethnographer. He was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
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Mikhail Gurevich
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotmilitary flight engineerengineerinventor
- Biography
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Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000 MiG aircraft have been manufactured domestically, of which 11,000 aircraft were exported. The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was the MiG-25.
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Ossip Bernstein
- Occupations
- chess playerchess composer
- Biography
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Ossip Samoilovich Bernstein was a French chess player and businessman. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.
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John of Shanghai and San Francisco
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox monkEastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco was an ascetic, missionary and prelate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1896
- Occupations
- zoologistbiologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian and Soviet biologist who specialized in the field of artificial insemination and the interspecific hybridization of animals. He is famous for his controversial attempts to create a human–ape hybrid by inseminating three female chimpanzees with human sperm.
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Jerzy Neyman
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1912-1919
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianstatisticianphilosopher
- Biography
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Jerzy Spława-Neyman was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing.
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Lev Kopelev
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- Esperantistliterary criticliterary historianmilitary personnelopinion journalist
- Biography
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Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev (Russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912 – 18 June 1997) was a Soviet author and dissident.
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Dmytro Yavornytsky
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- folkloristlexicographerwriterlinguistanthropologist
- Biography
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Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky was a Ukrainian academician, historian, archeologist, ethnographer, folklorist, and lexicographer.
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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1852
- Occupations
- philologistopinion journalistgrammarianuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history.
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Ołeksandr Feldman
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Olexandr Borysovych Feldman is a Ukrainian politician and public figure of Jewish origin, People's Deputy of Ukraine (since 2002), businessman, multi-millionaire. He is considered to be one of the most influential people in Kharkiv. In 2013 he entered the rating of the hundred richest Ukrainians of the Ukrainian magazine Forbes, finishing 35th ($ 287m). Since June 2015, the co-chairman of the political party Our Land.
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Gennady Orlov
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Gennady Sergeyevich Orlov is a Russian sports journalist and a former Soviet footballer. He has lived in Leningrad since 1966 and has been a commentator since 1974. Orlov is best known for being a football commentator on Leningrad Television and, subsequently, Petersburg – Channel 5 for many years.
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Nikolai Aseev
- Occupations
- furniture designerscreenwriterarchitectwritertranslator
- Biography
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Nikolai Nikolayevich Aseyev was a Russian and Soviet Futurist poet and writer.
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Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov
- Occupations
- historianopinion journalist
- Biography
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Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov is a Soviet and Russian secret service agent, Lieutenant-General of Foreign Intelligence Service, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (29 April 2009 – 4 January 2017) where he actively supported interference in the United States elections. He is called "the right hand of Mr. Putin on the Balkans."
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Nikolai Korotkov
- Occupations
- surgeonphysician
- Biography
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Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov, also Korotkoff was a Russian surgeon, a pioneer of 20th-century vascular surgery, and the inventor of auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement.
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Izmail Sreznevsky
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- lexicographerlinguist
- Biography
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Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky was a Russian philologist, Slavist, historian, paleographer, folklorist and writer.
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Maik Yohansen
- Occupations
- translatorlinguistpoet
- Biography
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Maik Hervasiiovych Yohansen or Mike Johansen (Ukrainian: Майк Гервасійович Йогансен; pseudonyms Villi Vetselius [Willy Wetzelius] and M. Kramar; 16 October 1895, Kharkiv, Ukraine – 27 October 1937, Kyiv, Ukraine) – was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and linguist. He was one of the founders of VAPLITE.
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Alexander Vilenkin
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- In 1971 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- physicistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alexander Vilenkin is the Leonard Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor of Evolutionary Science and Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 260 publications.
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Dimitri Uznadze
- Occupations
- psychologistuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Dimitri Uznadze was a Georgian psychologist and professor of psychology, co-founder of the Tbilisi State University (TSU) and of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS).
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Ivan Svitlychny
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- translatorpoetwriter
- Biography
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Ivan Oleksiyovych Svitlychnyi was a Ukrainian poet, literary critic, and Soviet dissident.
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Boris Chichibabin
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin was a Ukrainian Soviet poet and a laureat of the USSR State Prize (1990), who is typically regarded as one of the Sixtiers.
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Maria Burmaka
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1987-1991
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Maria Burmaka is a Ukrainian singer, TV personality, musician, and songwriter in the genres of rock, pop, folk, and world music. She also holds the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.
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Otto Struve
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Otto Lyudvigovich Struve was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German origin. Otto was the descendant of famous astronomers of the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. He was also the nephew of Karl Hermann Struve.
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Pyotr Vologodsky
- Years
- 1863-1925 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky was a Russian statesman, public figure, and mason. He was the first chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian state and the second and last chairman of the Provisional Siberian government.
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Szolem Mandelbrojt
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1919-1920
- Occupations
- professoruniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Szolem Mandelbrojt was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics and Celestial Mechanics.
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Alexander Khatisian
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- public figurephysicianpoliticianwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Alexander Khatisian was an Armenian politician, doctor and journalist.
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Mykhailo Petrenko
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- judgecivil servantplaywrightpoet
- Biography
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Mykhailo Mykolayovych Petrenko was a Ukrainian romantic poet notable for his musical works, and a member of the Kharkiv Romantic School. He was married to Anna Evgrafivna Myrgorodova.
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Valery Mezhlauk
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- cartoonistpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk was a government and party official in the Soviet Union during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered as the Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) from 1934 to 1937. He became a victim of Stalin’s Great Purge and was executed on July 29, 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
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Natalia Zabila
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writerpoet
- Biography
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Natalia Lvivna Zabila was a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and playwright.
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Joseph Timchenko
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1873
- Occupations
- technicianinventorfilm directormechanic
- Biography
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Joseph Andriyovych Tymchenko — Ukrainian inventor and mechanic. He invented a type of a film camera.
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Anton Korobov
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Anton Sergiyovych Korobov is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2003. Korobov is a four-time Ukrainian champion. He was voted the best male chess player of Ukraine of 2012.
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Vladimir Steklov
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianinventorphysicist
- Biography
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Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a prominent Russian and Soviet mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
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Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sergei Natanovich Bernstein was a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory.
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Léon Metchnikoff
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- geographerrevolutionarysociologisthistorianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lev Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian geographer, sociologist and anarchist theorist.
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Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisthistorianliterary criticwriter
- Biography
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Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea was a Romanian Marxist theorist, politician, sociologist, literary critic, and journalist. He was also an entrepreneur in the city of Ploiești. Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea was the father of communist activist Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea and of philosopher Ionel Gherea.
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Borys Antonenko-Davydovych
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- translatorprose writerwriter
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Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, born Borys Davydov (Ukrainian: Борис Давидов) was a Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist. During the Great Purge he was sentenced to the death penalty, which was later replaced with ten years jail in a gulag. Antonenko-Davydovych wrote a number of prose books; he had been translating from German and Russian. One of the most famous of his works is "How do we speak" (Як ми говоримо) in which typical mistakes of Ukrainian speakers made under the influence of Russian language are considered.
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Volodymyr Semynoženko
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Volodymyr Petrovych Semynozhenko is a Ukrainian politician and scientist. Semynozhenko is a former Vice Premier Minister of Ukraine (in 1999, 2001–2002 and in 2010) and head of the Association of Ukrainian Scientists, and is now a member of the Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and served as the Chair of the Parliament Committee on Sciences and Technology. He is also the author of Ukrainian Legislation on Technology Parks. Semynozhenko was the party leader of the Party of Regions from late 2001 until early 2003. Since March 2009 Semynozhenko is party leader of the party New Politics. In addition, he created and served as the Head of the Ministry of Sciences and Technologies of Ukraine from 1996 to 1998, and has led numerous technology and innovation Committees in the Cabinet of Ministers.
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Egor Kovalevsky
- Occupations
- orientalistexplorertravelerwriterdiplomat
- Biography
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Egor or Yegor Petrovich Kovalevsky was a Russian traveller, writer, and diplomat.
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Dmytro Antonovych
- Occupations
- art historianpoliticianhistoriandiplomat
- Biography
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Dmytro Antonovych was a Ukrainian politician and art historian.
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Yevhen Chykalenko
- Occupations
- public figureagronomistopinion journalistpublisherpatron of the arts
- Biography
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Yevhen Kharlampiyovych Chykalenko was a Ukrainian public figure, philanthropist, landowner, publisher and patron of the arts. He was one of the initiators of the convocation of the Central Rada in 1917. He played an important role in the Ukrainian national revival in the early 20th century by co-funding the only Ukrainian-language newspapers in the Russian Empire.
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Maria Mezentseva
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpoliticianvolunteer
- Biography
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Maria Mezentseva is a Ukrainian politician. Mezentseva was elected to Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in 2019. She holds several positions related to European integration, including deputy chairperson of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the European Union (as of 2020) and chairperson of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (as of 2021).
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Aleksei Pogorelov
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1937-1941
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianmathematicianphysicist
- Biography
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Aleksei Vasilyevich Pogorelov, was a Soviet mathematician. Specialist in the field of convex and differential geometry, geometric PDEs and elastic shells theory, the author of novel school textbooks on geometry and university textbooks on analytical geometry, on differential geometry, and on the foundations of geometry.
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Alexander Schlichter
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter was a Ukrainian Bolshevik politician, Soviet statesman, political scientist and economist.
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Hryhoriy Hrynko
- Occupations
- reformatorpolitician
- Biography
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Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union. He served as finance minister of the Soviet Union in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacing Nikolai Bryukhanov.
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Aleksander Jabłoński
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Aleksander Jabłoński was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research was in molecular spectroscopy and photophysics.
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Barbara Karinska
- Occupations
- costume designer
- Biography
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Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska, was the Oscar-winning costumier of cinema, ballet, musical and dramatic theatre, lyric opera and ice spectacles. Over her 50-year career, that began at age 41, Karinska earned legendary status time and again through her continuing collaborations with stage designers including Christian Bérard, André Derain, Irene Sharaff, Raoul Pêne du Bois and Cecil Beaton; performer-producers Louis Jouvet and Sonja Henie; ballet producers René Blum, Colonel de Basil and Serge Denham. Her longest and most renown collaboration was with choreographer George Balanchine for more than seventy ballets — the first known to be “The Celebrated Popoff Porcelain,” a one act ballet for Nikita Balieff's 1929 La Chauve-Souris with music by Tchaikovsky for which Karinska executed the costumes design by Sergey Tchekhonin. She began to design costumes for Balanchine ballets in 1949 with Emmanuel Chabrier's “Bourrèe Fantasque,” for the newly founded New York City Ballet. Their final collaboration was the 1977 "Vienna Waltzes.” Balanchine and Karinska together developed the American (or powder puff) tutu ballet costume which became an international costume standard.
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Yelena Ubiyvovk
- Occupations
- partisan
- Biography
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Yelena Konstantinovna Ubiyvovk was a partisan and leader of a Komsomol cell during the Second World War. She was posthumously declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 May 1965, over twenty years after her death.
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Anatolii Zahorodnii
- Occupations
- physicistresearcher
- Biography
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Anatoliy Hlibovych Zahorodniy is a Ukrainian theoretical physicist and an organizer of science; an academician of NANU (since 2006), Vice President (2011-2020) and President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (since October 2020). Director of Nikolay Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine (since 2002). Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1990), Professor (1998), Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2005), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine (2012). He has been a Member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (since January 20, 2021).
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Andrey Valentinov
- Occupations
- historianscience fiction writerprose writerarchaeologist
- Biography
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Andriy Valentynov / Andrey Valentinov is the pen name of a Ukrainian Russian-speaking science/fantasy fiction writer Andriy Valentynovych Shmalko. Valentinov is a distinguished Ukrainian historian and archaeologist and works as an associate professor at Ukrainian studies department of Kharkiv National University. He resides in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and writes in Russian. Valentinov collaborates with other Russophone Ukrainian writers, such as H. L. Oldie and Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.
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Anatoly Vishnevsky
- Occupations
- economistediting staffdemographeracademicnovelist
- Biography
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Anatoly Vishnevsky was a Russian demographer and economist. He also wrote novels.
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Nikolai Pylchykov
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Mykola Dmytroych Pylchykov was a physicist, inventor, and geologist in the Russian Empire. He is known for the discovery of the photovoltaic effect, new properties of X-rays, and ways to control various mechanisms of the radio provided a basis of radio control.
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Nikolai Barabashov
- Occupations
- politicianastronomer
- Biography
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Nikolai Pavlovich Barabashov was a Soviet astronomer.
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Borys Mykolaiovych Martos
- Occupations
- economistteacherpoliticianhistorianukrainianist
- Biography
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Borys Mykolayovych Martos was a Ukrainian politician, pedagogue, and economist who briefly served as Chairman of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic from April to August 1919.
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Levko Borovykovsky
- Years
- 1806-1889 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- writerpoetethnographerfolklorist
- Biography
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Levko Borovykovsky ([Borovykovs'kyj] (22 February 1806 – 26 December 1889 in Myliushky village, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian romantic poet, writer, translator, and folklorist.
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Oleksandr Martynenko
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1977-1982
- Occupations
- journalistspokesperson
- Biography
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Oleksandr Vladlenovych Martynenko was a Ukrainian media director and journalist. He was a director of Interfax-Ukraine from its founding in 1992 to 1998 and from 2003. From 1998 to 2002, he was deputy chief of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine and press secretary of President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. He was a long-time author of the magazine Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, where he published articles under the pseudonym "Alexander Makarov". Martynenko died in Kyiv on 28 May 2024 at the age of 63.
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Bogdan Kistyakovsky
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Bohdan Oleksandrovych Kistiakivskyi (Ukrainian: Богдан (Федір) Олександрович Кістяківський; 16 November 1869 – 16 April 1920) was a Ukrainian philosopher, jurist, and sociologist. He reached prominence with his Gesellschaft und Einzelwesen (Society and Individuals) published in Berlin in 1899. Philosophically he defended transcendental idealism. In 1902 he contributed to Problems of Idealism (Problemy Idealizma), edited by Pavel Novgorodtsev. In 1909 he contributed the essay "In Defense of Law" to the anthology Vekhi (Landmarks).
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Leo Kiacheli
- Occupations
- writershort story writer
- Biography
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Leo Kiacheli was a Soviet and Georgian writer. He has been published since 1909, noted for the novels Gvadi Bigva, Tavadis Kali Maya (Princess Maya), Almasgir Kibulan, and Haki Adzba.
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Vitali Milman
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Vitali Davidovich Milman is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv University. In the past he was a President of the Israel Mathematical Union and a member of the “Aliyah” committee of Tel Aviv University.
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Peter von Köppen
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Peter von Köppen, was a Russian ethnographer, historian, statistician, and geographer of German heritage, academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), holding the civil rank of Active State Councillor.
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Alexandru Hâjdeu
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Alexandru Hâjdeu or Alexander Faddeevich Hizhdeu was a Russian writer of Romanian descent, who lived in Bessarabia, now Moldova. He was the father of Romanian writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. Alexandru Hâjdeu was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.
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Yuriy Kolobov
- Occupations
- politicianbankereconomist
- Biography
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Yuriy Kolobov is a former Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
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Joel Engel
- Occupations
- journalistmusic criticethnomusicologistcomposermusicologist
- Biography
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Joel Engel was a Russian music critic, composer and one of the leading figures in the Jewish art music movement. Born in the Russian Empire, and later moving to Berlin and then to Mandatory Palestine, Engel has been called "the true founding father of the modern renaissance of Jewish music."
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Pyotr Weinberg
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1854
- Occupations
- literary historianjournalistpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Pyotr Isaevich Veinberg was a Russian poet, translator, journalist and literary historian.
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Ivan Krasnov
- Years
- 1802-1871 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ivan Ivanovich Krasnov Russian: Краснов, Иван Иванович was a Russian general and author.
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Nikolay Sherbina
- Years
- 1821-1869 (aged 48)
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Nikolay Fyodorovich Shcherbina was a 19th-century Russian poet.
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Mykola Sumtsov
- Occupations
- public figureethnographermuseologistliterary scholarfolklorist
- Biography
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Mykola Fedorovych Sumtsov or Nikolai Fyodorovich Sumtsov (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Сумцов, 18 April 1854, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 12 September 1922 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR), sometimes spelled Sumcov, was an ethnographer, folklorist, art historian, literary scholar, educator and museum expert, who flourished in the Russian Empire, Ukrainian People's Republic, and Soviet Ukraine.
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Yevhen Zakharov
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Yevgen Yukhymovych Zakharov is a Ukrainian human rights activist and member of the Ukrainian PEN. He is a chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group. He was an activist in the dissident movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Vladimir Savon
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Vladimir Andreyevich Savon was a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1973.
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Iryna Akimova
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Iryna Mykhailivna Akimova is a Ukrainian politician and former First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine. She held this post from February 2010 till February 2014.
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Emmanuel Metter
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Emmanuel Leonievich Metter was a Russian conductor.
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Amvrosy Metlinsky
- Years
- 1814-1870 (aged 56)
- Occupations
- anthropologistethnographerpoet
- Biography
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Amvrosy Metlinsky was a Ukrainian poet, ethnographer, folklorist and panslavist. Professor at the Imperial University of Kharkov.
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Arkady Gornfeld
- Occupations
- opinion journalistwriterliterary scholarliterary historianbibliographer
- Biography
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Arkady Georgievich Gornfeld was a prominent Russian essayist, literary critic and translator, best known for a feud with dissident poet Osip Mandelstam.
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Evgeny Markov
- Years
- 1835-1903 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- writerliterary critic
- Biography
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Evgeny Lvovich Markov was a Russian writer, critic and ethnographer.
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Vasily Fesenkov
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Vasiliy Grigorievich Fesenkov was a Soviet Russian astrophysicist.
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Boris Gerasimovich
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
- Biography
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Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.
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Semyon Bogatyrev
- Occupations
- musiciancomposermusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Semyon Semyonovich Bogatyrev was a Soviet and Russian musicologist and composer.
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Ihor Isichenko
- Occupations
- archbishopwriteracademicscientist
- Biography
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Ihor Isichenko, is a former Ukraine Orthodox archbishop, who converted to Catholicism in 2020.
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Aleksandr Gradovsky
- Occupations
- docent
- Biography
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Aleksandr Gradovsky was a Russian jurist. A professor of law at St. Petersburg University since 1869, he was a leading theorist of Russian administrative and constitutional law. He was succeeded by Nikolay Korkunov.
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Sergey Zarudnyy
- Occupations
- writercivil servantjurist
- Biography
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Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny was a legal scholar, lawyer, senator, and privy councillor in the Russian Empire, mostly during the reign of Alexander II. He was a supporter of the emancipation reform of 1861, which freed serfs; and played a key role in writing the Russian Judicial Reform Act of 1864, which established an independent judiciary and extended the right to a trial by jury to all defendants.
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Viktor Hryhorovych
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianslavist
- Biography
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Victor Ivanovich Grigorovich was a Russian Slavist, folklorist, literary critic, historian and journalist, one of the originators of Slavic studies in the Russian empire.
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Boris Levitan
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1936
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Boris Levitan was a mathematician who worked on almost periodic functions, Sturm–Liouville operators and inverse scattering.
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Mikhail Lyubich
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mikhail Lyubich (born 25 February 1959 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a mathematician who has made important contributions to the fields of holomorphic dynamics and chaos theory.
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Nikolay Gredeskul
- Years
- 1865-1941 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherjurist
- Biography
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Nikolay Andreyevich Gredeskul was a liberal politician from the Russian Empire.
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Oleksandr Bakumov
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Oleksandr Serhiyovych Bakumov is a Ukrainian soldier, professor, and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 173rd electoral district since 29 August 2019. He is a member of Servant of the People. Prior to becoming a People's Deputy, he was a captain in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine during the war in Donbas, for which he was decorated with the Order of Merit.
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Miriam Bernstein-Cohen
- Occupations
- translatoractorstage actortheatrical directorwriter
- Biography
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Miriam Bernstein-Cohen, 1895–1991, was an Israeli actress, director, poet and translator.
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Boris Grynjov
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Borys Viktorovych Grynyov is a Ukrainian scientist, public figure, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS), Honored Science Worker of Ukraine, Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor. He is the Director of the Institute for Scintillation Materials.
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Platon Poretsky
- Occupations
- astronomeruniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Platon Sergeevich Poretsky was a noted Russian Imperial astronomer, mathematician, and logician.
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Semion Braude
- Enrolled in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Studied in 1932
- Occupations
- radio astronomerphysicist
- Biography
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Semion Yakovlevich Braude was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer.
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Alexander Gustav Winkler
- Occupations
- composerpianistmusic educator
- Biography
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Alexander Adolfovich Winkler, also Alexandre Adolfovitch Winkler (Russian: Александр Адольфович (Густав) Винклер; 3 March 1865 in Kharkiv – 6 August 1935 in Besançon), was a Russian pianist, composer and music educator of German descent.
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Nikolai Turczaninov
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow was a Russian botanist and plant collector who first identified several genera, and many species, of plants.
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Nariman bey Narimanbeyov
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nariman bey Hashim oglu Narimanbeyov, also known as Nariman bey Narimanbeyli (Azerbaijani: Nəriman bəy Nərimanbəyli), was an Azerbaijani lawyer and statesman who served as State Controller in the fourth cabinet of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and was member of Parliament of Azerbaijan.
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Yuri Kivshar
- Occupations
- physicistresearcher
- Biography
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Yuri S. Kivshar, Australian Scientist of Ukrainian origin, distinguished professor, head of Nonlinear Physics Centre of The Australian National University (ANU) (Canberra, Australia) and research director of The International Research Centre for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (St. Petersburg, Russia), Australian Federation Fellow.
