Karlis Ozols

Karlis Ozols

male, deceased (2001)
Sovietdefector, Karlis Ozols, Chess Olympiads, Refugee, Australian, World War II
Kārlis Ozols was a Latvian-Australian chess player. Ozols represented Latvia at eighth board (+7 -1 =7) in unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1...
Alexander Vasiliev

Alexander Vasiliev

male, deceased (1953)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nicholas Marr, Russian, Sovietdefector, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sinai peninsula
Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century. His "History of...
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov

male, deceased (1991)
Soviet spy, Sovietdefector, Soviet diplomat, Russian Australian, defection
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (15 February, 1907 - 14 June, 1991) was a member of the Soviet Union's clandestine services who became famous in 1954...
Alexander Elder

Alexander Elder

male
Political asylum, Columbia University, Trading for a Living, Come into my trading room, Study Guide for Trading for a Living, stock trader…Sovietdefector
Alexander Elder, M.D., is a professional stock trader, living in New York. He is the author of "Trading for a Living" and the "Study Guide for...
Ludmila Belousova

Ludmila Belousova

female, 74 years old
Olympic gold medalist, Russian, Sovietdefector, Olympic figure skater of the Soviet Union, Soviet figure skater, ussr…from the Soviet Union
Ludmila Yevgenyevna Belousova is a Russian figure skater. She trained at VSS Lokomotiv and competed internationally for the USSR. With her partner...
Alexander Kazhdan

Alexander Kazhdan

male, deceased (1997)
Soviet historian, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, Russian, stalin, Sovietdefector, soviet…Soviet Academy of Sciences
Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (born September 3, 1922, Moscow; died May 29, 1997, Washington, D.C.;) was one of the foremost Byzantinists of the late...
Leho Laurine

Leho Laurine

male, deceased (1998)
estonian, chess player, chess master, Refugee, Sovietdefector, swedish
Leho Laurine (Leo Laurentius) was an Estonian chess master. He was an Estonian Champion in 1932 (4th EST-ch), and took 3rd in 1935, behind Paul...

Alexey Selezniev

male, deceased (1967)
vilna, chess player, Russian, chess, Sovietdefector, mannheim…Soviet chess player
Alexey (Alex) Selezniev (Selesniev, Selesniew, Selesnev) was a Russian chess master. Selezniev was born into a wealthy merchant Russian family, and...

Elmārs Zemgalis

male, 86 years old
Refugee, Sovietdefector, WW II, Latvian, American, Efim Bogoljubow
Elmārs Zemgalis a Latvian-American chess master. After the Soviets second time invaded his native Latvia, Zemgalis fled to Germany. As a D.P. (...

Józef Światło

male, deceased (1975)
stalin, Sovietdefector, defected, Polish intelligence officer, defection, Western world
Józef Światło was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland (deputy director of 10th Department). After the death of Sta...