Vainshtein (originally an Eastern European spelling variant of Weinstein) is a

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Gil Vainshtein Gil Vainshtein (born 29 October 1984 in Ukraine) is a Canadian association football player who plays as a midfielder for the Italia Shooters of the Canadian Soccer League. In university he played for Alderson-Broaddus College, with whom h ...

(born 1984), Canadian soccer player *

Lev Vainshtein Lev Matveyevich Vainshtein (also "Vaynshteyn" and "Lew Weinstein"; 12 March 1916 – 25 December 2004) was a Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting. Early life Weinstein was born into a Jewish family from Yekaterinbur ...

(1916–2004), Soviet sport shooter *

Samuil Vainshtein Samuil Osipovich Vainshtein (Weinstein, Wainstein, Vainstein, Wajnsztejn) (1894–1942) was a Russian chess master, organizer, publisher and editor. In July/August 1914, he was playing in Mannheim at (the 19th DSB Congress, when it was interrupted ...

(1894–1942), Russian chess player *

Sevyan Vainshtein Sevyan Izrailevich Vainshtein (; 1926–2008) was a Russian ethnographer, archaeologist, and historian of Siberian and Central Asian peoples. He was a professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in ...

(1926–2008), Russian anthropologist and historian *

Arkady Vainshtein Arkady Vainshtein (; born 24 February 1942) is a Russian and American Professor Emeritus of Theoretical physics who was awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2005) and Sakurai Prize (1999) for theoretical physics. Biography Vainshtein was born on 24 Februar ...

(born 1942), Russian-American theoretical physicist *

Leonid Vainshtein Leonid Moiseevich Vainshtein (, April 20, 1945, Baku – June 20, 1994, Baku) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani composer, as well as Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan of Azerbaijani ...

(1945–1994), Azerbaijani-Jew composer *

Boris Vainshtein Boris Konstantinovich Vainshtein (Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович Вайнште́йн, 10 July 1921 – 28 October 1996) was a Russian crystallographer. He headed the Laboratory of Protein Crystallography of the Shubnikov In ...

(1921–1996), Russian crystallographer

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