Veniamin () is the Russian, Ukrainian and Greek version of the name
Benjamin
Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...
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Veniamin Alexandrov
Veniamin Veniaminovich Alexandrov (; 18 April 1937 – 6 November 1991) was a Soviet ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for CSKA Moscow
CSKA Moscow () is a Russian sports club based in Mo ...
(1937–1991), Soviet professional ice hockey player
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Veniamin Belkin (1884–1951), Russian artist and painter
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Veniamin Fleishman
Veniamin Iosifovich Fleishman, (, July 20, 1913 in Bezhetsk, Tver Governorate – September 14, 1941 in Krasnoye Selo, Leningrad Oblast) was a Soviet composer.
''Rothschild's Violin''
While studying under Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Cons ...
, (1913–1941), Russian composer
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Veniamin Kagan (1869–1953), Russian mathematician and expert in geometry
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Veniamin Kaverin
Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (; Вениами́н А́белевич Зи́льбер (Veniamin Abelevich Zilber); – May 2, 1989) was a Soviet and Russian writer, dramatist and screenwriter associated with the early 1920s movement of th ...
(1902–1989), Soviet writer associated with the early 1920s movement of the Serapion Brothers
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Veniamin (Kazansky)
Benjamin of Petrograd (, Veniamin Petrogradsky, – ), born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky (), was a hieromartyr under Soviet anti-religious persecution, a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov from ...
(1873–1922), bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Petrograd 1917–1922
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Veniamin Kondratyev
Veniamin Ivanovich Kondratyev (; born 1 September 1970) is a Russian politician serving as the governor of Krasnodar Krai since 2015.
Biography
In 1993 he graduated from the Kuban State University as a philologist and teacher of the Russian lan ...
(born 1970), Russian politician and governor of Krasnodar Krai
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Veniamin Levich
Veniamin Grigorievich (Benjamin) Levich (; 30 March 1917 – 19 January 1987) was a Soviet dissident who was an internationally prominent physical chemist, electrochemist, and founder of the discipline of physico-chemical hydrodynamics. He was a ...
(1917–1987), physicist, an expert in the field of electrochemical hydrodynamics
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Veniamin Mandrykin
Veniamin Anatolyevich Mandrykin (; 30 August 1981 – 6 August 2023) was a Russian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Mandrykin trained at the youth academy at Alania Vladikavkaz and in 1997 turned professional age ...
(born 1981), Russian professional football goalkeeper
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Veniamin of Petersburg Veniamin () is the Russian, Ukrainian and Greek version of the name Benjamin, and may refer to:
* Veniamin Alexandrov (1937–1991), Soviet professional ice hockey player
* Veniamin Belkin (1884–1951), Russian artist and painter
* Veniamin Fleish ...
(1874–1922), Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov 1917–1922
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Veniamin Smekhov
Veniamin Borisovich Smekhov (; born 10 August 1940 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. He was the winner of the Petropol Award (2000) as well as the Tsarskoselsky Artistic Prize (2009). He refused the title of Pe ...
(born 1940), Russian actor and stage director
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Veniamin Soldatenko
Veniamin Vasilievich Soldatenko (, 4 January 1939 – 15 July 2023) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk. He acquired Kazakhstani citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Soldatenko took up athletics in 1962 ...
(born 1939), former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk
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Veniamin Tayanovich
Veniamin Igorevich Tayanovich (; born 6 April 1967) is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer.
Tayanovich is best known for winning the gold medal in the Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona, alongside Vladimi ...
(born 1967), retired Russian freestyle swimmer
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Andrew Veniamin
Andrew Benjamin (Benji) Veniamin (16 November 1975 – 23 March 2004) was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A convicted car thief, Veniamin was a key figure in the Melbourne underworld killings, suspected of both murde ...
(1975–2004), Australian criminal, a suspected mass murderer and drug dealer
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