Yefimov, sometimes spelled Efimov (russian: Ефимов), or Yefimova (feminine; Ефимова) is a Russian last name and may refer to:
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Alexander Yefimov
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yefimov (russian: Александр Николаевич Ефимов; 6 February 1923 – 31 August 2012) was a senior military officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force from 1984 to 1990. Earlier in ...
(1923–2012), a Soviet aircraft pilot and twice
Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
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Boris Efimov
Boris Yefimovich Yefimov (russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Ефи́мов; ,The birth record of Boris Fridlyand (Boris Yefimov) in the metric book of the Kiev rabbinate for 1900 (:c:File:Фонд 1164 Опись 1 Дело 454. Метри ...
(1900–2008), a Soviet political cartoonist and propaganda artist
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Igor Yefimov
Igor Markovich Yefimov or Igor Efimov (Russian: И́горь Ма́ркович Ефи́мов; August 8, 1937 – August 12, 2020) was an American philosopher, historian, writer and publisher of Russian origin. Some of his works were published und ...
(1937–2020), an American philosopher, writer, and publisher of Russian origin
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Mikhail Efimov
2754 Efimov, provisionally named , is a stony asteroid and binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 13 August 1966, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean ...
(1881–1919), a Russian aviation pioneer
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2754 Efimov, an asteroid named after Mikhail Efimov
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Mikhail Yefimov (born 1978), Russian football player
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Nikolai Efimov
Nikolai Vladimirovich Yefimov (russian: Никола́й Влади́мирович Ефи́мов; 31 May 1910 in Orenburg – 14 August 1982 in Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician. He is most famous for his work on generalized Hilbert's problem o ...
(1910–1982), a Russian mathematician
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Sergei Yefimov
Sergei Dmitrievich Yefimov (russian: Серге́й Дмитриевич Ефимов, born 15 October 1987) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He works as an assistant coach for the Under-19 squad of FC Lokomotiv Moscow. His pos ...
(1922–1994), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
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Sergei Efimov
Sergei Dmitrievich Yefimov (russian: Серге́й Дмитриевич Ефимов, born 15 October 1987) is a Russian football coach and a former player. He works as an assistant coach for the Under-19 squad of FC Lokomotiv Moscow. His pos ...
(born 1987), a Russian footballer
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Vitaly Efimov
Vitaly N. Efimov (Russian: Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов) is a Russian theoretical physicist. He proposed the existence of a novel and exotic state of matter now dubbed the Efimov State as a researcher in A. F. Ioffe Phy ...
(born 1938), a Russian theoretical physicist
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Efimov state The Efimov effect is an effect in the quantum mechanics of few-body systems predicted by the Russian theoretical physicist V. N. Efimov in 1970. Efimov’s effect is where three identical bosons interact, with the prediction of an infinite series o ...
is named after Vitaly Efimov.
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Vitaly Efimov (politician) (born 1940), Russian politician
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Vladimir Yefimov (1949–2012), a Russian type designer, typesetting font artist, theorist and teacher
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Vyacheslav Yefimov (1923–1943), a Soviet army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union
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