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Efim Bogoljubov As A Young Man
Efim is a given name, also spelled as Yefim. It is derived from the Greek name ''Euthymios'' (Εὐθύμιος; ; Latinisation of names, latinized as ''Euthymius''). Notable people with the name include: *Efim Alexandrov (born 1960), Russian-Jewish comedian *Efim Bogoljubov (1889–1962), Russian-German chess grandmaster *Efim Dzigan (1898–1981), Soviet film director *Efim Etkind (1918–1999), Russian philologist *Efim Fradkin (1924–1999), Russian physicist *Efim Geller (1925–1998), Soviet chess grandmaster *Efim Jourist (1947–2007), Ukrainian composer *Efim Kolbintsev (1875–), Russian peasant, treasurer, merchant and deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from Orenburg Governorate *Efim Motpan (born 1971), Moldovan racewalker *Efim Shifrin (born 1956), Russian actor *Efim Zelmanov (born 1955), Russian-American mathematician *Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov and Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (1774–1842) and (1803–1849), Russian inventors, father and son *Yefim Bronfman (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Name
In the modern world, Greek names are the personal names among people of Greek language and Greek culture, culture, generally consisting of a given name and a family name. History Ancient Greek personal names, Ancient Greeks generally had a single name, often qualified with a patronymic, a clan or tribe, or a place of origin. Married women were identified by the name of their husbands, not their fathers. Hereditary family names or surnames began to be used by elites in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine period. Well into the 9th century, they were rare. But by the 11th and 12th centuries, elite families often used family names. Family names came from placenames, nicknames, or occupations.Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', 2016, , p. lii During the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman period, surnames with Turkish prefixes such as "Hatzi-" ("Haji, Hacı"), "Kara-" ("brave") and suffixes such as "-(i)lis" ("li/lı" mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efim Shifrin
Efim (Yefim, born Nakhim) Zalmanovich Shifrin (; born March 25, 1956) is a Soviet and Russian actor, humorist, singer. He is the creator and artistic director of " Shifrin-Theater". Biography Efim Shifrin was born in 1956 in the village of Neksikan in the Magadan region. From 1973—1974 he studied at the philological department of Latvian University, and from 1974 to 1978 at the stage department of State University of Circus and Stage Art. One of his professors was Roman Viktyuk. From 1977, he began to act on stage at Moscow State University. Among Efim’s theatrical works of that time were ''Goodbye, Boys!'', ''The Night After Being Released'' and ''Duck Hunting''. In 1979, Efim Shifrin became the prize winner of the 1st Moscow Contest of Stage Actors. In 1983, Shifrin became the prize winner of the 7th USSR’s Contest of Stage Actors. His first solo performance, ''I Would Like to Say'', mainly based on works by Viktor Koklyushkin, was in 1985. Koklyushkin's texts also ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Moiseevich Fomin
Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin (; ; 15 January 1909 – 26 June 1941) was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately executed him. Early life Fomin was born into a Jewish family in Kolyshki in Vitebsk Governorate (present-day Liozna Raion, Belarus) in 1909. He lost his parents as a young boy and was raised in orphanages. In 1924, Fomin joined the Komsomol, at the age of 15. He worked at a shoe factory in Vitebsk and then moved to Pskov. There, he was sent to the Communist Party school to prepare for a career as a professional party worker. In 1930, at age of 21, while at the party school, Fomin became a member of the Soviet Communist Party. When he returned from the school, he was assigned to be a propagandist of the Pskov City Committee of the Communist Party. Army career In 1932 the Party assigned Fomin to the Soviet Army, where he became a political commissar and began a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Kopelyan
Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (6 March 1975) was a Soviet Union, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leningrad. He performed bright, characteristic roles in the films ''The Elusive Avengers'', ''Intervention (1968 film), Intervention'', ''Eternal Call'', ''The Straw Hat'', and many others. He is also known for the voice-over in the hit TV series ''Seventeen Moments of Spring''. He was born in the Belarusian town Rechytsa into a Jewish family. After graduation, he worked as a metal craftsman at the plant ''Krasny Putilovets'' in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad. In 1930, he entered the architectural department of the Academy of fine arts. In his students years he earned additionally as wikt:supernumerary, supernumerary in the BTD, entered to the studio of this theatre (course of K.K.Tverskoy). At the end of his education, Kopelyan became an actor on the main staff of the BTD. These early years in the theatre were not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Karskiy
Yefim Fyodorovich Karsky (, ; , older name form) ( – 29 April 1931) was a Belarusian linguist, Slavist, ethnographer, and paleographer, founder of Belarusian linguistics, literary studies and paleography, a member of numerous scientific institutions, and author of more than 100 works on linguistics, ethnography, paleography and others. Karsky was described by his contemporaries as extremely industrious, accurate, self-organized, and reserved in behavior. He was acclaimed as a scientist of the highest integrity. Karsky's input into contemporary Slavistics, especially into the Belarusian branch, was immense. The first significant revisions of Karsky's views on the development of the Church Slavonic and Russian languages were proposed much later, by Viktor Vinogradov. One of the best known works of Karsky is ''Belarusians''. Biography Early life and education Yefim Karsky was born in Lasha (in Grodno Governorate, now Grodno Region), to the family of teacher F. Novits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Golïshev
Yefim Golyshev (), variously transliterated as ''Golyscheff'', ''Golyschev'', ''Golishiff'', ''Golishev'', etc., 8 September 1897 – 25 September 1970) was a Ukrainian-born painter and composer who was mainly active in Europe. After a successful career as a child prodigy violinist and the Reger Prize from Berlin's Stern Conservatory, Golyshev became one of the founding members of the Dadaist November Group, painting "anti-art" works and creating music for kitchen utensils and various new, invented instruments. In 1933 he had to flee from the Nazis, first to Portugal, then to Barcelona, where he worked as a chemist until 1938. He spent World War II in France, either in prison or hiding. Between 1956 and 1966 Golyshev, lived in São Paulo, where he influenced Brazil's Música Nova composers. He died in Paris in 1970. Golyshev the composer is notable for his only surviving composition, a string trio. This piece, subtitled ''Zwölftondauer-Komplexe'' (twelve-tone-duration complex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Chulak
Yefim Aronovich Chulak (, born 15 July 1948) is a Russian former volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the 1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ... in Montreal. He is Jewish. In 1972, Chulak was part of the Soviet team that won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all seven matches. Four years later, Chulak won the silver medal with the Soviet team in the 1976 Olympic tournament. He played all five matches. See also * List of select Jewish volleyball players References External links * * 1948 births Living people People from Gagauzia Moldovan Jews Soviet Jews Soviet men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Volleyball players a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Chaplits
Yefim Ignatyevich Chaplits/Tschaplitz (; 1768–1825), born Eufemiusz Czaplic, was a Polish military commander in the service of the Russian Empire. Life Eufemiusz Czaplic was born into an old Polish noble family Czaplic (Kierdeja coat of arms) and began military service in the Polish army, but entered Russian service with a rank of second major on 26 October 1783. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92, he served on the staff of Prince Potemkin and took part in the battles of Ochakov, Bendery and Akkerman. He received the Order of St. Vladimir of 4th degree with bow for the capture of Izmail, where he commanded the chasseurs. In 1792 he became Lieutenant Colonel and was transferred to the Smolensk Dragoon Regiment of General Mikhail Kakhovsky. During the Kościuszko's Uprising of 1794 Czaplic was sent by Baron Igelström to carry out peace negotiations with the Poles, but was wounded and captured at Warsaw. He was soon released and participated in the Persian Campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Bronfman
Yefim Naumovich Bronfman (; born April 10, 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist. Biography Bronfman was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and immigrated to Israel at the age of 15. He was born into a musical Jewish family. His father Naum Bronfman was a concertmaster of the municipal opera orchestra, his mother Pauline Bronfman was a pianist, and his older sister Elizabeth later became a violinist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He became an American citizen in 1989. Bronfman's teachers were Arie Vardi, Rudolf Firkušný, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin Rudolf Serkin (28 March 1903 – 8 May 1991) was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the 20th century. Early life, childhood debut, and education Serkin was born in .... References External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov And Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov
Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov (; 1774 – 1842), and his son Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (; 1803 – 1849) were Russian inventors and industrial engineers. They were serfs of the Demidovs – a famous family of factory owners. In 1810s Yefim built a progressive machine-building plant, equipped with a full range of innovative metal-cutting lathes (such as screw-cutters, gear-cutting serrating machines and others). From 1822 until his death, Yefim was chief mechanic for all the factories in the town of Nizhny Tagil. Miron was his apprentice and in 1819 was appointed his deputy. Miron became chief mechanic after his father's death. Innovations Industrial machinery The Cherepanovs significantly improved the machinery that had been used in blast-furnace and gold-mining industries, iron and copper Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efim Zelmanov
Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (; born 7 September 1955) is a Russian-American mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the Burnside problem, restricted Burnside problem. He was awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich in 1994. Biography Zelmanov was born on 7 September 1955 into a Jewish family in Khabarovsk. He entered Novosibirsk State University in 1972, when he was 17 years old. He obtained a doctoral degree at Novosibirsk State University in 1980, and a higher degree at Leningrad State University in 1985. He had a position in Novosibirsk until 1987, when he left the Soviet Union.In 1990, he moved to the United States, becoming a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was at the University of Chicago in 1994/5, then at Yale University. In 1996, he became a Distinguished Professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study and in 2002, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efim Motpan
Efim Motpan (Efim Moțpan; born 10 February 1971) is a Moldovan racewalker. He competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Motpan, Efim 1971 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Moldovan male race walkers Olympic athletes for Moldova People from Ungheni District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
