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Kotsur
Kotsur (Cyrillic: Коцур) is a Ukrainian surname. It is a cognate of Kocur (Polish, Slovak) and Kocour (Czech). Kotsur may refer to: * Andrei Kotsur (born 1982), Belarusian kickboxer * Pavel Kotsur (born 1974), Kazakhstani chess grandmaster * Svyryd Kotsur (1890–1920), Ukrainian insurgent during the War of Independence * Troy Kotsur (born 1968), American actor See also * * Kocur Kocur (Polish pronunciation: ) is a surname which means "tomcat" in Polish and Slovak. It is a cognate of the Czech surname Kocour and East Slavic Kotsur. Kocur may refer to: * Joe Kocur (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player * Kory Kocur Ko ... {{surname East Slavic-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy Kotsur
Troy Michael Kotsur (; born July 24, 1968) is an American actor in theater, film, and television. His supporting role in the film ''CODA'' (2021) earned him a number of accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award. He is the first deaf actor to win the latter three awards, and first deaf man and second deaf performer overall to win the former. Kotsur also directed the feature film '' No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie'' (2013). Early life and education Kotsur was born in Mesa, Arizona, the largest suburb of Phoenix, on July 24, 1968, to JoDee (née True) and Leonard Stephen "Len" Kotsur, who was Mesa's police chief. When Kotsur was nine months old, his parents discovered that he was deaf, and they learned American Sign Language so the family could communicate. His parents encouraged Kotsur to play sports and to make friends with hearing children in their neighborhood. Kotsur attended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svyryd Kotsur
Svyryd Dementiovych Kotsur ( uk, Свирид Дементійович Коцур) (1890–1920?) was a Ukrainian otaman insurgent during the Ukrainian War of Independence. In early 1920 he created the Naddniprians'kyi kish, or Dnipro Division, and declared a short-lived independent Chyhyryn republic. Biography Kotsur was born to a peasant family in the village of Subotiv, near Chyhyryn city in the southern part of the Kyiv gubernia. In his youth, Svyryd and his brothers became politically active in the leftist underground. He participated in an anarcho-communist group and a bank robbery in Katerynoslav. Kotsur was responsible for a police shootout that interrupted Nestor Makhno's March 1910 court martial, which injured multiple guards and killed one secret policeman. Though he expected to be hanged, his sentence was commuted to prison labor and was ultimately released during the 1917 February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская ре ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Kotsur
Andrei "White Cat" Kotsur (born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian Muay Thai welterweight kickboxer fighting out of the Gym "Kick Fighter in Minsk, Belarus where is trained by Evgeni Kotelnikov. He is a four time pro world and three time European (two pro, one amateur) Muay Thai champion. Career/Biography Andrei started his kickboxing career at the Gym "Kick Fighter" in Minsk under the tutelage of Evgeni Kotelnikov in 1999. As a member of the strongest Muay Thai gym in Belarus and possibly Europe, he gained experience from training alongside champions such as Andrei Kulebin, Dmitry Shakuta, Dmitry Valent, Vasily Shish and Aliaksei Pekarchyk. He first gave notice of his rising talent by taking part in two title fights (albeit unsuccessful) for the World Kickboxing Network (W.K.N) European and world titles in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Andrei also competed in amateur competition, picking up a silver medal at the amateur European championships held in Cyprus in 2002 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Kotsur
Pavel Kotsur (born 3 January 1974) is a chess player from Kazakhstan who holds the titles Grandmaster (1996) and FIDE Arbiter (2009). He played for Kazakhstan in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2008 and in the World Team Chess Championship of 1997. He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 1999 (knocked out in the first round by Sergey Dolmatov), 2002 (knocked out in the first round by Leinier Domínguez) and 2004 (knocked out in the first round by Darmen Sadvakasov). In 1999, Kotsur won the 4th stage of the Russia Cup in Novgorod. In 2002, he tied for first with Peter Kostenko in the Kazakhstani Chess Championship. In 2004 he tied for 4th–16th in the 3rd Aeroflot Open in Moscow. In the March 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo sys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kocur
Kocur (Polish pronunciation: ) is a surname which means "tomcat" in Polish and Slovak. It is a cognate of the Czech surname Kocour and East Slavic Kotsur. Kocur may refer to: * Joe Kocur (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player * Kory Kocur Kory Kocur (born March 6, 1969) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey), right winger. Kory was drafted in the 1st round (17th overall) by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career Koc ... (born 1969), Canadian ice hockey player * Miroslav Kocur, Slovak microbiologist * Kijewski / Kocur, Polish artists References See also * * Kotsur {{surname Polish-language surnames Slovak-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
