Uspensky (), or Uspenskaya (feminine; Успе́нская, Uśpieńska) is an East European surname. Notable people with the surname include:

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Aleksandr Uspensky Aleksandr Ivanovich Uspensky (; 27 February 1902 – January 28, 1940) was a senior officer of the Cheka, the Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie, GPU and the NKVD. Uspensky was both a perpetrator and a victim of the Great Purge. Biogr ...

(1902–1940), Soviet

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (, ), abbreviated as NKVD (; ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) se ...

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Andrej Uspenski Andrej Uspenski is a Russian ballet dancer and photographer. Uspenski was born in St Petersburg and trained at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, the Palucca School of Dance, Dresden, and the Berlin State Ballet School. Uspenski joined The R ...

, Russian photographer *

Boris Uspensky Boris Aleksandrovich Uspensky (; 12 July 1927 – 28 September 2005), was a Soviet and Russian poster and graphics painter. Biography Boris Uspensky was born in Moscow. He studied in the Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, ...

(born 1937), Russian philologist and historian *

Eduard Uspensky Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky (; 22 December 193714 August 2018) was a Soviet and Russian children's writer and poet, author of over 70 books, as well as a playwright, screenwriter and TV presenter. His works have been translated into 25 languages ...

(1937–2018), Russian writer *

Fyodor Uspensky Fyodor Ivanovich Uspensky (or Uspenskij; ; 19 February 1845 – 10 September 1928) was a Russian and Soviet Byzantinist. His works are considered to be among the finest illustrations of the flowering of Byzantine studies in the Russian Empire. ...

(1845–1928), Russian Byzantinist *

Gleb Uspensky Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky (; October 25, 1843 April 6, 1902) was a Russian writer and a prominent figure of the Narodnik movement. Biography Early life Gleb Uspensky was born in Tula, Russia, Tula, the son of Ivan Yakovlevich Uspensky, a senior o ...

(1843–1902), Russian writer * J. V. Uspensky (1883–1947), Stanford University mathematician *

Lev Uspensky Lev Vasilyevich Uspensky (, 8 February 1900 – 18 December 1978) was a Russian writer and philologist, known for his popular science books in linguistics.Lyubov Uspenskaya Lyubov Zalmanovna Uspenskaya (Russian: ''Любо́вь За́лмановна Успе́нская''; born Sitsker (''Си́цкер''); 24 February 1954) is a Soviet and Russian performer of Russian popular music, much of which is the so- ...

(born 1954), popular Ukrainian/Russian chanson singer *

Maria Ouspenskaya Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya (; 29 July 1876 – 3 December 1949) was a Russian actress and acting teacher.Nissen, Axel. 2006. ''Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties.'' Illustrated ed. ...

(1876–1949), Russian actress and acting teacher * Marina Uspenskaya (1925–2007), Russian book designer and graphics painter *

Nikolai Uspensky Nikolai Vasilyevich Uspensky (; 31 May 1837 – 2 November 1889) was a Russian writer, and a cousin of fellow writer Gleb Uspensky. Uspensky wrote extensively about the realities of peasant life in rural Russia around the time of the Emancipat ...

(1837–1889), Russian writerEstonia * Peter Uspensky (1878–1947), Russian esotericist and philosopher, known as P. D. Ouspensky * Porphyrius Uspensky (1804–1885), Russian traveller and theologian *

Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky (Russian: Влади́мир Андре́евич Успе́нский; 27 November 1930 – 27 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician, linguist, writer, doctor of physics and mathematics (1964). He was the author of ...

(born 1930), Soviet/Russian mathematician

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