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Litvinov
Litvinov or Litvinoff (russian: Литви́нов) is a Russian surname derived from the term ''Litvin'', meaning Lithuanian person (Litva/Литвa). The female form of this surname is Litvinova (russian: Литви́нова). Notable persons with that name include: Litvinov * Alexander Litvinov (1853–1932), Russian general in the Imperial Russian Army and the Red Army * Venya D'rkin (stage name – real name Alexander Litvinov, 1970–1999), bard musician, artist, and storyteller * David Litvinoff (AKA David Litvinov, 1928–1975), consultant for the British film industry who traded on his knowledge of the low life of the East End of London * Dmitry Litvinov (1854–1929), Russian botanist * Emanuel Litvinoff (1915–2011), British writer and editor * Eugene Litvinov (1950–2020), American engineer * Ivy Low Litvinov (1889–1977), English-Russian writer and translator * Juri Litvinov (born 1978), Kazakhstani figure skater * Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), Soviet diplomat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (; born Meir Henoch Wallach; 17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet statesman and diplomat. A strong advocate of diplomatic agreements leading towards disarmament, Litvinov was influential in making the Soviet Union a party to the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928 and was chiefly responsible in 1929 for adoption of the so-called Litvinov Protocol, a multilateral agreement bringing Kellogg-Briand into force between the Soviet Union and a number of neighboring states. In 1930, Litvinov was named as People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, the highest diplomatic position in the Soviet state. During the subsequent decade, Litvinov emerged as a leading voice for the official Soviet policy of collective security with the Western powers against Nazi Germany. Early life and first exile Meir Henoch Wallach was born into a wealthy, Yiddish-speaking Lithuanian Jewish banking family in Białystok, Grodno Governorate of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Litvinov
Pavel Mikhailovich Litvinov (russian: Па́вел Миха́йлович Литви́нов; born 6 July 1940) is a Russian-born U.S. physicist, writer, teacher, human rights activist and former Soviet-era dissident. Biography The grandson of Ivy Low and Maxim Litvinov, Joseph Stalin's foreign minister during the 1930s, Pavel Litvinov was raised amongst the Soviet elite. As a schoolboy, he was devoted to the cult of Stalin, and was tapped, unsuccessfully, by the KGB to report on his parents Flora and Misha Litvinov (a story that is related by the journalist David Remnick in his book '' Lenin's Tomb''). After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 and the return of family friends from the labor camps, Pavel grew disillusioned with the Soviet system. He had a short-lived marriage when he was 17. While in his 20s, he became a physics teacher at the Institute for Chemical Technology. During his time at the Institute, Litvinov became acquainted with a group of intellectuals who were fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Litvinova
Renata Muratovna Litvinova (russian: Рената Муратовна Литвинова; born 12 January 1967) is a Russian actress, film director, and screenwriter. Biography Litvinova was born in Moscow to Volga Tatar father Murat Aminovich Vergazov and a Russian mother, Alisa Mikhailovna Litvinova. Both her parents were doctors. They divorced when Renata was just one year old. After school, she entered VGIK in 1984 and graduated in 1989. She attended the same year as fellow screenwriters and directors Roman Kachanov and Arkady Vysotsky. It is here where she worked on her first film as a screenwriter for the film ''The Much Loved Rita. The Last Meeting with Her'' (1988). Career Screenwriter She began her film career as a screenwriter, writing films from 1988 to 1998. None of her earlier projects such as ''Truck Drivers 2'' (1992) achieved any critical or commercial acclaim. She was discovered by fellow director Kira Muratova in 1994 after Muratova had come across Litvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy Low Litvinov
Ivy Teresa Low Litvinov (Russian language, Russian: Айви Вальтеровна Литвинова) (4 June 1889 – 16 April 1977) was an English-Russian writer and translator, and wife of Soviet diplomat and foreign minister Maxim Litvinov. She was also known as Ivy Low, Ivy Litvinova or Ivy Litvinoff. Biography She was born in London into an Anglo-Jewish family. Her father Walter was a friend of H. G. Wells. In 1894 her father died, and in 1896 her mother Alice remarried to John Alexander (Sandy) Herbert, and published some novels under the name Alice Herbert. Early in 1916 Ivy Low married Maxim Litvinov, who at the time was a revolutionary exile living in London. They had two children, Mikhail (Misha) and Tatiana (Tanya). Following the Russian Revolution Maxim returned home in 1918, and she followed him two years later. Maxim Litvinov became a prominent diplomat and served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (foreign mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizaveta Litvinova
250px Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova (1845–1919?) was a Russian mathematician and pedagogue. She is the author of over 70 articles about mathematics education. Early life and education Born in 1845 in czarist Russia as Elizaveta Fedorovna Ivashkina, she completed her early education at a women's high school in Saint Petersburg. In 1866 Elizaveta married Viktor Litvinov, which, unlike Vladimir Kovalevsky (Sofia Kovalevskaya's husband), would not allow her to travel to Europe to study at the universities there. Thus, Litvinova started to study with Strannoliubskii, who had also privately tutored Kovalevskaya. In 1872, as soon as her husband died, Litvinova went to Zürich and enrolled at a polytechnic institute. In 1873 the Russian czar decreed all Russian women studying in Zürich had to return to Russia or face the consequences. Litvinova was one of the few to ignore the decree and she remained to continue her studies, earning her baccalaureate in Zürich in 1876 and her doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litwinowicz
Litwinowicz is a Polish and a Belarusian surname derived from the word ''Litwin'' ("Lithuanian" or anyone from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania). It is also spelled Litvinovič and Litvinovich, from be, Лiтвiновiч. Surnames of similar etymology: Slavic: Litvin, Litvinchuk, Litvinov, Litwin, Litvak, Litovchenko; German: Litauer, Littauer. Litwinowicz, Litvinovich, or Litvinovič may refer to: * Aleksander Litwinowicz Aleksander Litwinowicz (1879 — 1948) was a Polish general who was a member of Polish Independence Organizations before World War I and a member of the Polish Legions during the war. Litwinowicz was promoted to general in 1924. From 1936 to 1939 ... (1879-1948), Polish general * Irena Litvinovič (born 1958), Polish-Lithuanian theatre director * Ivan Litvinovich (born 2001), Belarusian trampoline gymnast * Spirydion Litwinowicz ( Spiridon Litvinovich), Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Lviv (1866-1869) {{Lithuanian-surname Polish-language surnames Sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Litvinov
Dmitry Ivanovich Litvinov (russian: Дмитрий Иванович Литвинов; – 5 July 1929) was a Russian botanist responsible for the naming of a large variety of East European and Asian plants. He is known as the author of the concept of glacial refugia for the plants growing on chalk and limestone slopes of the banks of rivers in the European part of Russia. Together with Vasily Zinger, he discovered the natural monument Galichya Gora in Central Russia ( river Don) inhabited by relict plants. He graduated from the Imperial Moscow Technical School in 1879, receiving the degree of a construction mechanic specialist. Interested in botany, in 1898 he quit his job as a teacher at a technical school and became a curator and later a senior botanist at the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences, where he worked until the end of his life. Alternative spelling of the names: Dimitri Ivanovitch Litvinov (in French); Dmitrij Iwanowitsch Litwinow (in German). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Litvinov
Alexander Ivanovich Litvinov (russian: Александр Иванович Литвинов; 22 August 1853 – 1932) was a general in the Imperial Russian Army. Biography Litvinov was educated in the 1st Moscow military school and entered military service on August 5, 1870. He graduated from the 3rd Military Alexandrovskoye and Mikhaylovskoye Artillery School in 1873. He was appointed a lieutenant (August 10, 1873) in the 1st Horse-Artillery Brigade. He then served in the 2nd Cavalry Artillery team. He fought in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878, attaining the rank of captain on December 18, 1880. In 1882 he graduated from the Academy of General Staff of the Mykolayiv. He then went to the Vilensky Military District. On November 24, 1882, he was appointed senior staff adjutant to the 4th Cavalry Division, attaining the rank of colonel on March 24, 1885. On September 29, 1886, he was appointed the chief of staff of the Vilno Military District. On April 19, 1890, he became ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Litvinov
Viktor Yakovlevich Litvinov (russian: Виктор Яковлевич Литвинов, 30 April 1910 – 4 June 1983) was a Soviet Russian aircraft designer and organizer of the aircraft industry. Early life Viktor Litvinov was born in the city of Taganrog in 1910. In 1930 he completed his studies in the Taganrog's aviation technical school and was assigned to the ''Aviation Factory Number 1'' in Moscow as technical engineer in the assembly shop. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) in 1937. In 1938 he was appointed the chief engineer of the Aviation Factory Number 1. Accomplishments In 1938, Litvinov introduced the new system of project development, featuring prefabricated stocks with unified elements. This made a considerable economy of metal and reduced the cycles of stocks production. In 1940, he introduced the ''parallelism principle'' into the aircraft building industry: the preparations for the start of production were made simultaneously with desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juri Litvinov
Juri Litvinov (also romanized as Yuriy Litvinov, born May 6, 1978) is a Kazakhstani former competitive figure skater. He is a multiple national champion of Kazakhstan and competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics, World Championships, and Four Continents Championships. He moved to the United States with his then-coach Sergei (Sergey) Korovin in 1996. Litvinov retired from competition in 2003. As of late 2019, he is a certified professional ice skating coach, holding certifications with the United States Figure Skating Association, Professional Skaters Association, and USA Hockey. He coaches figure skating and hockey at MedStar Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Virginia and Mt. Vernon Recreation Center in Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city (United States), independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately south of Downto .... Programs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitali Litvinov
Vitali Viktorovich Litvinov (russian: Виталий Викторович Литвинов; born 17 November 1970) is a former Russian professional footballer. Club career He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Progress Chernyakhovsk. Honours * Russian Premier League bronze: 2000. * Top-33 year-end best players list: 2000. European club competitions * UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996 with FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg: 5 games, 3 goals. * UEFA Cup 2000–01 with FC Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pr ...: 2 games, 1 goal. References 1970 births Footballers from Saint Petersburg Living people Soviet men's footballers Russian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football defenders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Litvinov
Eugene Litvinov (July 1, 1950 – September 25, 2020) was Chief Technologist of ISO New England Inc, in Holyoke, MA. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 for leadership in market design and power system control. He was elected to the 2020 class of National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for development of optimization mathematics for new electricity market In a broad sense, an electricity market is a system that facilitates the exchange of electricity-related goods and services. During more than a century of evolution of the electric power industry, the economics of the electricity markets had un ...s and innovative applications for electric grid control, visualization, and planning. References Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people 1950 births American electrical engineers {{US-electrical-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
