Burla (surname)
Burla is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Mikhail Burla (born 1957), politician in Transnistria * Oded Burla (1915–2009), Israeli writer, son of Yehuda * Serena Burla (born 1982), American track and field athlete *Yehuda Burla Yehuda Burla ( he, יהודה בורלא; born 18 September 1886, died 7 November 1969) was an Israeli author. Biography Burla was born in 1886 in Jerusalem, then part of the Ottoman Empire, to a Sephardi Jewish family with rabbinical roots, or ...

Mikhail Burla
Mikhail Porfirovich Burla (russian: Михаи́л Порфирович Бурла; uk, Михайло Порфірович Бурла, ''Mykhaylo Profirovych Burla''; born 22 November 1957 in village Mejdurechie, Storozhynets Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Transnistrian politician and the chairman of the country's governing political party, Obnovlenie. Biography Burla was born on 22 November 1957 in Storozhynets Raion of the Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine. He is an economic geographer by profession and spent much of his career teaching at T.G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol. After satisfying the compulsory military service in the Soviet Army (November 1979 to May 1981), he worked as an assistant at the Department of Physical Geography of the above-mentioned institute. In 1982 he enrolled to pursue a post-graduate course in the field of economic, social and political geography at the Leningrad State University, which he graduated in 1985. In the same year ...
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Oded Burla
Oded Burla ( he, עודד בורלא; June 23, 1915 – July 26, 2009) was an Israeli writer, poet, and artist. He is considered one of the founders of children's literature in Hebrew. Biography Oded Burla was born in Jerusalem to a Sephardic Jewish family. His father Yehuda Burla, was a famous Hebrew novelist. Burla's young brother, Yair, was also a writer and translator. His early years were spent moving between Jerusalem, Haifa and Zikhron Ya'akov. At 13, he transferred to the school at Kibbutz Beit Alfa and then Mikveh Israel, an agricultural school near Holon. Burla died in 2009 at the age of 94, following a long battle with skin cancer. Literary and art career From 1949 to 1955 Burla lived in the USA where he taught in Hebrew schools, worked as an announcer and speechwriter for a radio station "Kol America". When he came back to Israel, he was admitted to Bezalel Academy of Art and Design where he majored in graphics. His first book, ''Letters to Liora'', was a ...
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Serena Burla
Serena Burla (born September 27, 1982) is an American track and field athlete from St. Louis, specializing in long-distance running events. In college, Burla was a two-time Big 12 Conference runner-up for the Missouri Tigers. Burla competed in the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships where she finished 16th (upgraded from 17th place after suspension of Inga Abitova). Burla won the 2013 USA Half Marathon Championships (held as part of the Houston Half Marathon). At the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, Burla placed 10th in the marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of , usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There are also wheelchair div ... with a time of 2:31:06. Burla ran a Marathon PR of 2:26:53 to finish 4th in the 2017 Osaka Women's Marathon. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burla, Serena ...
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