Marina Semenova

Marina Semenova

female, 101 years old
Russian, stalin, ballet dancer, Old Bolshevik, Prima ballerina, bolshoi theatre…GreatPurge
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (born in Saint-Petersburg on June 12, 1908) is the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was named a People's...
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein

Matvei Petrovich Bronstein

male, deceased (1938)
Quantum Gravity physicist, cosmology, Soviet physicist, popular science, Exonerated Soviet death sentence, astrophysics…GreatPurge
Matvei Petrovich Bronstein was a Soviet theoretical physicist, a pioneer of quantum gravity, author of works in astrophysics, semiconductors,...

Eero Haapalainen

male, deceased (1937)
Finnish, communist, Finnish Civil War, Soviet Russia, GreatPurge
Eero Haapalainen (Approx. 1880 - 1937), was a Finnish Communist leader. Haapalainen fought in the Finnish Civil War and after the reds lost he fled...
Boris Gerasimovich

Boris Gerasimovich

male, deceased (1937)
Astronomer, asteroid, Russian, Astrophysicist, moon, GreatPurge
Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich (June, 1937) was a Russian astronomer and astrophysicist. Gerasimovich was born in Kremenchug (now Kremenchuk, Poltava...

Yakov Davydov

male, deceased (1938)
Russian, stalin, soviet, Soviet execution, Cheka, trotsky…GreatPurge
Yakov Khristoforovich Davydov (born Davtyan, Russian: Яков Христофорович Давыдов (Давтян); 10 October, 1888 - 1938) was, as head of the Cheka's Fo...
Nadezhda Joffe

Nadezhda Joffe

female, deceased (1999)
Soviet women writer, Russian women writer, Russian, American women writer, GreatPurge, collapse of the soviet union
Nadezhda Adolfovna Joffe (1906- March 18 1999, Brooklyn) was a Soviet Trotskyist and daughter of early Soviet leader Adolph Joffe. Joffe joined the...
Mikayil Mushfig

Mikayil Mushfig

male, deceased (1939)
poet, azerbaijani, ussr, Victim of Soviet repressions, azerbaijan, Exonerated Soviet death sentence…GreatPurge
Mikayil Mushfig, born Mikayil Ismayilzadeh was the Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s. During the Stalinist purges in the USSR, Mikayil Mushfig was...
Galaktion Tabidze

Galaktion Tabidze

male, deceased (1959)
poet, stalin, soviet, georgian, tbilisi, committed suicide…GreatPurge
Galaktion Tabidze (November 17, 1891 – March 17, 1959) was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced al...

Mikheil Javakhishvili

male, deceased (1937)
writer, stalin, British, soviet, zola, Victim of Soviet repressions…GreatPurge
Mikheil Javakhishvili (real surname: Adamashvili was a Georgian novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers. His...
Sulamith Messerer

Sulamith Messerer

female, deceased (2004)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Russian, ballet dancer, Ballerina, Choreographer, western europe…GreatPurge
Sulamith Mikhailovna Messerer (August 27, 1908 - June 3, 2004) was a Russian ballerina and choreographer who laid the foundations for the classical...