Alexander Gumberg (1887–1939) born in

Kropyvnytskyi Kropyvnytskyi ( uk, Кропивницький, Kropyvnytskyi ) is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river with a population of . It is an administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast. Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its nam ...

(then Elizavetgrad), he was a

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of Jewish background who emigrated to the

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in 1903 and went on to become an important link between the

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and the USA following the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. Although he was not a Bolshevik himself, his brother

Sergey Zorin Sergey Semyonovich Zorin (russian: Сергей Семёнович Зорин, born Sergey Gumberg; 1890 – 10 September 1937), was the party's First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee, roughly equating to that of mayor. He held the posit ...

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