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Afanasiev
Afanasyev (masculine; Афанасьев) or Afanasyeva (feminine; Афанасьева) is a Russian last name. It is derived from Afanasy which is etymologically directly connected to Athanasios (Αθανάσιος), a very common Greek masculine first name that means "immortal". As Russian last name it is shared by the following people: People * Aleksey Afanasyev (1850-), Russian painter and illustrator *Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), Russian folklorist *Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1817–1875), Russian/Ukrainian writer and ethnographer * Alexey Ivanovich Afanasyev (1910–1978), Soviet naval officer and Hero of the Soviet Union * Alexey Nikolayevich Afanasyev (1916–1968), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union *Anatoly Afanasyev (1912–2003), Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union *Fyodor Afanasyev (1859–1905), Russian revolutionary * Georgy Afanasyev (1906–1975), Soviet geologist and petrographer *Mikhail Afanasyev (born 1986), Belarusian fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Afanasyev (racing Driver)
Sergey Andreyevich Afanasyev ( rus, Серге́й Андре́евич Афана́сьев, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪf; born 25 March 1988) is a Russian racing driver, holder of honour "Master of sports of Russia". Education School Sergey graduated from school (Moscow) in 2004 with the gold medal. Higher education 2009 – Academic Law University (Russian Academy of Science) // Law (Honours degree) 2010 – Lomonosov Moscow State University // Marketing 2013 – Moscow Socio-Pedagogical Institute // Pedagogics and psychology Career Early career Afanasyev began his racing career 1998 in baggy-kart where immediately started to achieve high results. Since 1999 started to take part in go-kart competition. 1999 – bronze in Russian Championship in Mini 2000 – Champion of Russia in Raket 2001 – bronze in Russian Championship in ICA-junior 2002 – Champion of Russia in ICA-junior 2002 – Champion of Russia in Oka-junior (winter t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Afanasyev
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Afanasief, Afanasiev or Afanas'ev, russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Афанасьев) ( — ) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volumes from 1855 to 1867, earning him the reputation as being the Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm. Life Alexander Afanasyev was born in the town of Boguchar in the Voronezh Governorate of the Russian Empire (modern-day Voronezh Oblast of Russia) into a family of modest means. His mother Varvara Mikhailovna Afanasyeva came from common people. Alexander was her seventh child; she became very ill after giving birth and died by the end of the year. The children were raised by their father Nikolai Ivanovich Afanasyev, a Titular councillor who served as a prosecutor's assistant on probable causes and whom Alexand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyev
Nikolay Mikhailovich Afanasyev (russian: Николай Михайлович Афанасьев; 14 November 1916 – 15 March 2009), also known as Nicolai Michaelovich Afanasiev, was a Russian firearms designer.Памяти Николая Михайловича Афанасьева , ''КАЛАШНИКОВ. ОРУЖИЕ, БОЕПРИПАСЫ, СНАРЯЖЕНИЕ'' 2009/4, p. 24 Biography Nicolai Michaelovitch Afanasiev was born in Russia on 14 November 1916 in . In 1938 he graduated from a |
Mikhail Afanasyev
Mikhail Afanasyev ( be, Міхаіл Афанасьеў, russian: Михаил Афанасьев; born 4 November 1986) is a Belarusian former professional footballer. Club career He was signed by FC Amkar Perm in February 2008. Afanasyev joined Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino in January 2020. International career Afanasyev was the captain of the Belarus U21 team and participated in all three of the Belarusians' games at the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. He conceded a handball in the game against Italy U21, resulting in a penalty, which contributed to the 1–2 loss. Afanasyev holds the record for the most matches played and is also the highest goal scorer for the U-21 side. On 13 November 2009, he made his international debut for the Belarus B team, against Saudi Arabia B team in a friendly match. Honours MTZ-RIPO Minsk *Belarusian Cup winner: 2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksey Afanasyev
Aleksey Fyodorovich Afanas'ev, also Afanasiev or Afanasyev (Russian: Алексе́й Фёдорович Афана́сьев; 30 November 1850, Saint Petersburg - c. 1920, location unknown) was a Russian Empire painter, graphic artist, caricaturist and illustrator who was associated with the Peredvizhniki. Biography His parents were servants at the Imperial Court, and he originally worked as a footman and stoker.Brief biography @ the Sate Museum, . In 1872, he began auditing classes at the and was accepted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky
Alexander Stepanovich Afanasyev (russian: link=no, Александр Степанович Афанасьев, 12 March 1817 – 18 September 1875) was a Russian and Ukrainian poet, writer, editor, ethnographer and translator (from Polish and English). In 1853 he started using the pseudonym Чужбинский (Chuzhbinsky) and has been known mostly as Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky since. Afanasyev was born in village Iskovtsy, Lubensky region, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire, now Ukraine. He made his debut as a published poet in 1837 ("The Ring", Кольцо, ''Sovremennik''); his first Ukrainian poem came out in 1841 (Saint Petersburg almanac Ластівка, ''Swallow''). His Ukrainian poems were collected in ''From My Heart'' (Що було на серці) and published in 1855. Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky's two-volume ethnographic work, ''A Journey to the Southern Russia'' (Поездка в Южную Россию, Saint Petersburg, 1861) came as a result of his 1856 journey to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Afanassiev
Valery Afanassiev (russian: Валерий Павлович Афанасьев, ''Valerij Pavlovič Afanasiev''; born 8 September 1947) is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor. Life Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow. He studied piano at the Academic Music College and Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak. He was the winner of the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1968, as well as 1st prize recipient at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 1971. Shortly after, while touring around Belgium, he decided to seek political asylum, and was eventually granted Belgian citizenship. Afanassiev lives in Versailles. Work and critical reception Afanassiev become widely known in the 1980s due to his musical partnership with Gidon Kremer. Their joint recordings of chamber works by Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms were highly praised. His interpretations of solo piano works by Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven and the others have aroused controversy on account of Afa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepan Afanasyev
Stepan ( uk, Степань; pl, Stepań; he, סטפאן) is an urban-type settlement in Sarny Raion (district) of Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population was 4,073 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census. Current population: The settlement is located in the historic Volhynia region of Ukraine, on the left bank of the Horyn, a tributary of the Prypiat. History The first written mention of Stepan dates back to 1290. In 1900, the Jewish population of Stepan totaled 1,854. During the World War II occupation of Ukraine, the Nazi German occupying forces established a Jewish ghetto, where nearly 3000 Jews were killed. In 1960, Stepan acquired the status of an urban-type settlement. People from Stepan * Stanisław Gabriel Worcell (1799–1857), socialist Polish revolutionary See also * Klesiv Klesiv ( uk, Клесів; pl, Klesów) is an urban-type settlement in Sarny Raion (district) of Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Population: History Klesiv was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana Afanasyeva
Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva (russian: link=no, Татья́на Алексе́евна Афана́сьева) (Kiev, 19 November 1876 – Leiden, 14 April 1964) (also known as Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanaseva or spelled Afanassjewa) was a Russian/Dutch mathematician and physicist who made contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. On 21 December 1904, she married Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933). They had two daughters and two sons; one daughter, Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, also became a mathematician. Early life Afanasyeva was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Her father was Alexander Afanassjev, a chief engineer on the Imperial Railways, who would bring Tatyana on his travels around the Russian Empire. Her father died while she was still young, so she moved to St Petersburg in Russia to live with her aunt Sonya, and uncle Peter Afanassjev, a professor at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vahur Afanasjev
Vahur Afanasjev (born Vahur Laanoja; 24 August 1979 – 10 May 2021) was an Estonian novelist, poet, musician and film director best known for his novel ''Serafima and Bogdan'' a story following the lives in a village of Russian Orthodox Old Believers on the shore of the lake Peipus from the end of the World War II to the nineties. The novel won the 2017 Estonian Writers' Union's Novel Competition. Biography Afanasjev graduated from the University of Tartu in 2002, majoring in economic policy. He was a member of a literary group called Tartu Young Authors' Association since 1998, and a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 2006. He worked as a journalist, media analyst, copywriter, creative director, and PR officer. From 2005 to 2010, Afanasjev lived in Brussels, Belgium. He summed up his life as a euro official in the European Economic and Social Committee in his 2011 travelogue ''My Brussels''. He was awarded the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature in 2021. He died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Afanasyev
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil''. It may refer to: *Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462 *Vasili III of Russia Tsar from 1505–1533 *Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610 *Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny *Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter *Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis *Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general *Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander *Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal *Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General *Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son *Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author *Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist *Vasily Ignatenko (1961–1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
