Petrovsky (feminine: Petrovskaya) is a Russian-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:

People

Adolf Petrovsky Adolf Markovich Petrovsky (; 1887, in Warsaw, Vistula Land, Russian Empire – 17 September 1937 in Soviet Union) was a Soviet diplomat. Career From 10 December 1924 until 31 January 1930, Petrovsky was the Plenipotentiary Representative of th ...

(1887–1937), Soviet diplomat * (born 1981), Russian singer *

Boris Petrovsky Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky (; 27 June 1908 – 4 May 2004) was a Soviet and Russian general surgeon who was the Ministry of Health (Soviet Union), health minister of the Soviet Union in the period 1965–1980. Early life and education Petrovsky ...

(1908–2004), Soviet surgeon and politician *

Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky (10 December 1933 – 10 July 2023), often called Luten Petrowsky, was a German jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, composer and author. He is considered the father of free jazz in East Germany (GDR). He was one of f ...

(1933–2023), German jazz saxophonist *

David Petrovsky David Petrovsky (born David Lipetz, also known as Max Goldfarb, Bennett, Humboldt, Brown; September 24, 1886 — September 10, 1937) was a Ukrainian Jewish revolutionary politician, economist, journalist, general of the Red Army, and Soviet state ...

(Lipetz) (also known as Max Goldfarb, Bennett, Humboldt, Brown (1886–1937), Jewish revolutionary politician, economist, journalist, general of the Red Army, and Soviet statesman *

Grigory Petrovsky Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (, ; 4 February 1878 – 10 January 1958) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and Old Bolshevik. He participated in signing the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Treaty of Brest-L ...

(1878–1958), Ukrainian revolutionary *

Ivan Petrovsky Ivan Georgiyevich Petrovsky (; 18 January 1901 – 15 January 1973) was a Soviet mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discove ...

(1901–1973), Soviet mathematician *

Kristina Petrovskaia Kristina Valentinovna Petrovskaya (, born June 3, 1980) is a retired Russian ice hockey defenceman. She competed with the Russian women's national ice hockey team in the 2002, 2006, and 2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and enviro ...

(born 1980), retired Russian ice hockey player *

Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (December 31, 1918 – June 3, 2018) was a Russian-American author, actress and a sniper during World War II. A survivor of the siege of Leningrad, she married an American diplomat and came to the United States, becoming th ...

(1918–2018), Russian-American writer *

Leonid Petrovsky Leonid Grigorevich Petrovsky (11 June 1897 – 17 August 1941) was a Soviet lieutenant general. He was the oldest son of Grigory Petrovsky. He was born in what is now Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. He was promoted to Komkor from Komdiv in 1937. While ...

(1897–1941), Soviet lieutenant general * (1933–2019), Russian astronomer, the namesake of 5319 Petrovskaya, minor planet * (1875–1921), Russian philologer, best known for his "Словарь русских личных имён" (''Dictionary of Russian First Names'') * (1891–1968), Russian teacher best known for his ''Dictionary of Russian First Names'' *

Nikolai Petrovsky Nikolay Fyodorovich Petrovsky (; 1837–1908) was the Imperial Russia, Russian Diplomatic consulate, consul-general in Kashgar from 1882 until 1902. Petrovsky's main adversary during his time in Central Asia was George Macartney (British consul), ...

(1837–1908), Russian diplomat *

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born Ivan Myronovych Petrovsky, April 6, 1962) is an American historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controv ...

(born 1962), Russian-American historian, philologist and essayist

Fictional characters

* Aleksandr Petrovsky, fictional character played by Mikhail Baryshnikov in ''

Sex and the City ''Sex and the City'' is an American romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO, based on Sex and the City (newspaper column), the newspaper column and 1996 book by Candace Bushnell. It premiered in th ...

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