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YEV
YEV may refer to: YEV - Jewish Autonomous Oblast situated in the Far Eastern federal district of Russia.YEV - the IATA code for Inuvik (Mike Zubko) Airport. This page disambiguates a three-character combination which might be any or all of an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in Engli..
Yevanic language
Yevanic, otherwise known as Romaniote and Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the Hellenistic period. Its linguistic lineage stems from the Hellenistic Koine (Ελληνική Κ_..
Yevdokiya Rostopchina
Yevdokiya Rostopchina Yevdokia Petrovna Rostopchina, Russian: (December 23, 1811 - December 3, 1858) was one of the early Russian women poets. After losing her mother at the age of six, Yevdokia Sushkova grew up in Moscow in the family of her maternal grandfather, Ivan Alexandrovich Pashkov...
Yevfimy Putyatin
Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin (Russian: ) (November 8, 1803–October 16, 1883) was a Russian admiral. He commanded a Russian expedition to Japan from 1852 to 1855 that culminated in the signing of a commercial treaty between Russia and Japan in 1855. He arrived in Nagasaki on August 12, 1..
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Yevgenia Ginzburg Yevgenia Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 - May 25, 1977) (Russian language: Евгения Семёновна Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer. Frequently, her latinized name Eugenia is used in the West. Soon after Yevgenia Ginzburg was born into a family of..
Yevgenii Ivanov
Yevgenii Viktorovich Ivanov (Russian: Евгений Викторович Иванов, also transliterated as Yevgeny; born August 16, 1964) is a member of the State Duma of Russia, and a member of LDPR. He is deputy chairman of the State Duma's Committee on Budget Issues and Taxes. [link]..
Yevgeniy Abalakov
Yevgeniy Mikhailovich Abalakov (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Абалаков; February 7, 1907, Yeniseysk — March 23/24, 1948, Moscow) was a Soviet alpinist, famous for reaching the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m) on September 3, 1933 as a member of t..
Yevgeniy Arzhanov
Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Arzhanov (Russian: Евгений Александрович Аржанов) (born February 9 1948) is a former middle distance runner who won a silver medal over 800m at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He represented the USSR and finished in the same time (1:45.9) as gold medalli..
Yevgeniy Berens
Yevgeniy Andreyevich Berens (Russian: Евгений Андреевич Беренс) (November 11 (O.S. October 30), 1876, Tiflis - April 7, 1928, Moscow) was a Russian military leader, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from April of 1919 to February of 1920. ..
Yevgeniy Koreshkov
Yevgeniy Koreshkov (born March 11, 1970 in V Kazakhstanskaya, Kazakhstan) is an ice hockey player who played for the Kazakhstan in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Yevgeniy scored 5 goals in 5 games before the Kazakhstani national hockey team was eliminated in the preliminary round of the tournament. ..
Yevgeniy Landis
Yevgeniy Mikhailovich Landis (E.M. Landis, Russian Евгений Михайлович Ландис) (October 6, 1921 – December 12, 1997) was a Russian mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential equations. He studied at the Moscow State University, where his advisor was Alexande..
Yevgeniy Migunov
Translated from Russian page for Мигунов, Евгений Тихонович Evgeniy Tikhonovich Migunov (Russian: Евгений Тихонович Мигунов) (February 27, 1921 - January 1st, 2004) was a Russian artist, animator and cartoonist. In the 1950s he worked in Soyuzmultf..
Yevgeniy Misyulya
Yevgeniy Misyulya (born March 13, 1964 in Grodno) is a Belarusian race walker. He has won two World Championships bronze medals, and even participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics at the age of 40. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Event 1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 3rd 20 km 1..
Yevgeniy Redkin
Yevgeniy Redkin (born February 2 1970) is a former Russian biathlete, who won a surprising gold medal over 20 kilometres ahead of Mark Kirchner and Mikael Löfgren at the 1992 Winter Olympics ..
Yevgeniy Ryzhkov
Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (born May 15, 1985) is a Kazakhstani swimmer who won the bronze medal over 200m breaststroke at the 2006 Short Course World Championships. Achievements 2006 FINA Short Course World Championships - bronze medal (200m breaststroke)2004 Olympic Games - disqualified (200m individual me..
Yevgeni Bauer
Yevgeni Bauer (or Yevgeny Bauer or Evgeni Bauer or Evgenii Bauer or Ievgueni Bauer) was a Russian film director born in 1865 and deceased in the Crimea on June 22, 1917. He was the most important Russian film director before the October Revolution. Yevgeni Bauer made more than seventy films between ..
Yevgeni Mokhorev
Biography Yevgeni Mokhorev (born 1967 in Leningrad now Saint Petersburg) is a famous Russian photographer. He participated in more than 40 events, both in Russia and abroad. All of Yevgeni's galleries take place in his native city of Saint Petersburg. His main theme revolves around children and te..
Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky (Russian: ) (1886-1937) was an Old Bolshevik, an economist and a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and, its successor, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Born in Orel, he was member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Dem..
Yevgeni Safonov
Yevgeni Safonov (born 6 July 1977) is an Uzbekistani football goalkeeper. He is a member of the national team, and has played 24 matches since his debut in 1999 [link]. Clubs Samarkand-DinamoFC Shinnik Yaroslavl External link [Career history] at National Football Teams ..
Yevgeni Shevchuk
Yevgeni Shevchuk (Russian: , Ukrainian: Євген Шевчук) (born June 19 1968 Rybnitsa, MSSR) is a politician from Transnistria, speaker of parliament and one of the leaders of Renewal (Obnovleniye), an opposition party. The party's name is sometimes also translated as Renovation. Yevge..
Yevgeny Adamov
Evgeny Adamov (Yevgeny Adamov or Yevgeniy Adamov) was the head of the Russian atomic energy ministry, MinAtom. He was appointed by President Boris Yeltsin in 1998 and ousted by President Vladimir Putin in 2001. Adamov, a nuclear physicist, then joined the Dollezhal Institute. In 2005, he was arre..
Yevgeny Belyaev
Men's Cross country skiing Gold 1980 4 x 10 km Silver 1976 15 km Bronze 1976 4 x 10 km Yevgeny Belyaev (born March 20 1951). is a former Soviet/Russian cross-country skier who competed from 1976 to 1980. He won the 15km silver and the 4 x 10km bronze at the 1976 Winter Olym..
Yevgeny Grishin
Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin (Russian: ) (23 March 1931, Tula - 9 July 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian speedskater. He became European Champion in 1956, and won Olympic gold in the 500 metre and 1,500 metre events in both 1956 and 1960, competing for the USSR team. Grishin was the first to break..
Yevgeny Ivanov
Captain Yevgeny Ivanov (died January 17, 1994) was a Soviet naval attaché at the Russian embassy in London in the late 1950s, and was also engaged in espionage. He became friends with osteopath Doctor Stephen Ward. MI5 saw Ivanov as a potential defector and asked Ward to try and convince him to sh..
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov (born 18 February, 1974) (Russian: ) (yeev-GYEH-nee KAH-fill-nee-cough) is a Russian former World No. 1 tennis player. During his career, he won two Grand Slam singles titles (one French Open and one Australian Open), four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's ..
Yevgeny Khaldei
Yevgeny Khaldei Yevgeny Khaldei (March 23 [O.S. March 10] 1917 - October 6, 1997) was a world renowned Red Army photographer, best known for his World War II photograph of a Russian soldier placing the Soviet Union's Red flag atop the Reichstag building in Berlin, signifying the fall..
Yevgeny Khrunov
Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov (Russian: Евгений Васильевич Хрунов; September 10, 1933 – May 19, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5 mission. He was born in Prudy. Yevgeni Khrunov was a colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union (January 22, 1969) and Kandidat of Te..
Yevgeny Kulikov
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kulikov (Russian: ) (born 25 May 1950) is a former speed skater, who specialised in the sprint. Competing for the Soviet Union Yevgeny Kulikov became the first to break the 38 seconds barrier on the 500 m in 1975 and over the course of the next two weeks he lowered his o..
Yevgeny Leonov
Leonov in Kin-Dza-Dza Postage stamp devoted to Leonov Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (Russian: ; 2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a famous Russian/Soviet actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films. He also provided the voice for many Soviet cartoon char..
Yevgeny Nazdratenko
Yevgeny Ivanovich Nazdratenko (Russian: ) (b. February 16, 1949 on board of a ship in the area of Severo-Kurilsk, Sakhalin Oblast) is a Russian politician. In 1983, he graduated from the Far Eastern Technological Institute where he specialized in economics. Nazdratenko was a Governor of Primo..
Yevgeny Petrosyan
Yevgeny Petrosyan (born September 16, 1945 in Baku) is one of the USSR's best-known comedians who has been entertaining Russians for more than four decades. Born into an Armenian family, Petrosyan formerly hosted his own television program on Rossia channel, called "Smekhopanorama" (Laugh-panorama)...
Yevgeny Petrov
Petrov (right) and Ilf Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeny Petrovich Kataev; Russian: Евгений Петров; December 13 (November 30 (O.S.)), 1903 in Odessa – July 2, 1942) was an extremely popular Soviet author of the 1920s and 1930s, who worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. He is the brot..
Yevgeny Polivanov
Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов) (1891 - 1938) was a Soviet/Russian linguist and orientalist. He wrote major works on Japanese, Chinese, Uzbek, Dungan languages and on theoretical linguistics. He participated in developing writing systems ..
Yevgeny Primakov
Yevgeny Primakov Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov (Евгений Максимович Примаков) (born October 29, 1929) is a former Chairman ('predsedatel') of the government of the Russian Federation. He was the last chairman of an upper chamber of the Soviet parliament, and the Russian ..
Yevgeny Rodionov
--> Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Rodionov (Russian: Родионов Евгений Александрович) (May 23, 1977 - May 23, 1996), Russian soldier killed in Chechen captivity. Yevgeny Rodionov was born in a village Satino-Russkoye, near Podolsk, Moscow region. He was conscripted into the A..
Yevgeny Sadovyi
Yevgeny Sadovyi (born 19 January, 1973) is a former Russian swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona and was subsequently chosen by Swimming World magazine as the Male World Swimmer of the Year. Career Born in Volzky, Sadovyi started swimming at age six. In 1981..
Yevgeny Savchenko
Yevgeny Savchenko (born 1950) is the governor of Belgorod Oblast in Southern Russia. He has been in office since 1993, he is a member of the Agrarian Party. Savchenko is a supporter of President Putin and won by a clear majority against his communist challenger, Vasily Altukhov in 2003, receiving 6..
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
Yevgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (Russian: Евгений Иванович Шапошников) (b. February 3, 1942 in Rostov Oblast) is a Russian military leader and business figure, Chief Marshal of Aviation (1991). In 1987-1988, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was the air force commander of the Group of S..
Yevgeny Sudbin
Yevgeny Sudbin (1980-) is a Russian concert pianist. Born in St. Petersburg, he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin. His education has also included lessons with Murray Perahia, Claude Frank, Leon Fleisher, Stephen Kovacevich, Dmitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts..
Yevgeny Tarle
Yevgeny Tarle Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle (Russian: ) (27 October [O.S. 8 November] 1874 in Kiev – 6 January 1955 in Moscow) was a Soviet historian and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known for his books about Napoleon's invasion of Russia and on the Crimean..
Yevgeny Tolstikov
Yevgeny Ivanovich Tolstikov (Russian: Евгений Иванович Толстиков) (1913 - December, 1987) was a Soviet polar explorer, awarded by the Hero of the Soviet Union title. He led the Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition. The asteroid 3357 bears his name. In 1979, he was made deputy c..
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Yevgeny Vakhtangov Yevgeny (Eugene) Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (February 13,1883-May 29,1922) was a renowned Russian director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. He was a pupil of Konstantin Stanislavski, and a mentor of Mikhail Chekhov. Vakhtangov was born to Armenian parents in Vla..
Yevgeny Vuchetich
Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (December 28 (December 15 (O.S.)), 1908— 1974) (Russian: ) was a prominent sculptor and artist of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), People's Artist of the USSR (1959), known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style. Vuchetich was of Se..
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevtushenko represents the "Russia's new generation" on the cover of Time magazine, April 13, 1962 Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: ; born July 18, 1933) is a Russian poet, whose work contains scathing attacks on the Russian bureaucracy as a legacy of Stal..
Yevgeny Yufit
Yevgeny Yufit (born 17 January, 1961 in Leningrad) is a Russian filmmaker. He was a member of Russia's Parallel Cinema movement, which sought to make films which were aesthetically at odds with the state-run film industry. Yufit first became famous for his macabre short films, which, like the films..
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин sometimes translated into English as Eugene Zamyatin) (February 1, 1884 – March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced Geor..
Yevgraf Fyodorov
Yevgraf Stepanovich Fyodorov, sometimes spelled Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov (Russian: ) (December 22, 1853–May 21, 1919), was great Russian mathematician, crystallographist, mineralogist. Yevgraf Fyodorov was born in Russian city of Orenburg in the family of engineer. Later family moved to Sa..
Yevhen Konovalets
Yevhen Konovalets (1891-1938) was a military commander of the UNR army and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. He is best known as the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists between 1929 and 1938. Konovalets was born June 14, 1891 in the village of Zashkiv near Lvi..
Yevhen Marchuk
(Gen. Ret.) Yevhen K. Marchuk (Ukrainian: Євген Кирилович Марчук, born 28 January, 1941) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician. He was appointed acting Prime minister of Ukraine on March 1, 1995 and confirmed on June 8, 1995. Resigned on May 27, 1996, after being elected to ..
Yevhen Stankovych
Yevhen Stankovych (September 19, 1942-) is one of the most famous contemporary Ukrainian composers of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works. He is of world renown, having most of his works performed around the globe. See also [Yevhen Stankovych] ..
Yevla
Yevla is a city and a municipal council in Nashik district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Yevla had a population of 43,205. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Yevla has an average literacy..
Yevlakh
Yevlakh (Azeri: Yevlax) is a small town in Azerbaijan, 265 km west of capital Baku. It is surrounded by the rayon of the same name. Subdivisions of Azerbaijan Districts: Absheron | Agdam | Agdash | Agjabadi | Agstafa | Agsu | Astara | Babek* | Balakan | Barda | Beylagan | Bilasuvar | Dash..
Yevlakh (rayon)
Yevlakh (Yevlax) is a rayon of Azerbaijan, and it surrounds the cities of Yevlakh and Mingachevir. Subdivisions of Azerbaijan Districts: Absheron | Agdam | Agdash | Agjabadi | Agstafa | Agsu | Astara | Babek* | Balakan | Barda | Beylagan | Bilasuvar | Dashkasan | Davachi | Fizuli | Gadaba..
Yevlakh Stadium
Yevlakh Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Yevlakh, Azerbaijan. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of FK Karvan. The stadium holds 5,000 people. ..
Yevno Azef
Yevno Azef Yevno Azef (1869-1918, also transliterated as Evno Azef), was a Russian socialist revolutionary who was also a double agent working for both as an organizer of assassinations for the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and a police spy for Okhrana. He was an agent provocateur, carrying o..
Yevonde
"Madame" Yevonde (Yevonde Cumbers, January 5, 1893 - December 22, 1975) was a photographer who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography. Educated at the liberal and progressive Lingholt Boarding School in Hindhead and subsequently at the Guilde Internationale in Paris, from an early age ..
Yevsektsiya
Yevsektsiya (alternative spelling: Yevsektsia), Russian: ЕвСекция, the abbreviation of the phrase "Еврейская секция" (Yevreyskaya sektsiya) was the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist party created to challenge and eventually destroy the rival Bund and Zionist parties, supp..
Yevstigney Fomin
Yevstigney Ipat'yevich Fomin The Romanized spelling of his name is variable: Yevstignei (Evstigney, Evstignei, Ewstigney or Evstignej) Ipatovich (Ipatyevich or Ipatevich) Fomin. (Russian: Евстигне́й Ипа́тьевич Фоми́н) (born St Petersburg August 16 [O.S. August 5..
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