Yakov (alternative spellings: Jakov or Iakov, cyrl, Яков) is a Russian or Hebrew variant of the given names
Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. J ...
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James
James is a common English language surname and given name:
*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
James or James City may also refer to:
People
* King James (disambiguat ...
. People also give the nickname Yasha ( cyrl, Яша) or Yashka ( cyrl, Яшка) used for Yakov.
Notable people
People named Yakov
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Yakov Blumkin
Yakov Grigoryevich Blumkin (russian: Я́ков Григо́рьевич Блю́мкин; 12 March 1900 – 3 November 1929) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, a Bolshevik, and an agent of the Cheka and the Joint State Political Directorat ...
(1900–1929), a
Left Socialist-Revolutionary
The Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (russian: Партия левых социалистов-революционеров-интернационалистов) was a revolutionary socialist political party formed during the Russian Revo ...
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Yakov Cherevichenko
Yakov Timofeyevich Cherevichenko (russian: Я́ков Тимофе́евич Черевиче́нко; 12 October 1894 – 4 July 1976) was a Soviet military leader and colonel general.
Biography First World War and Civil War
Yakov Cherevich ...
(1894–1976), Soviet military leader
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Yakov Chubin
Yakov Chubin also known as Yakov Shub (Mstsislaw, Mogilyov Governorate, 1893 – Moscow, November 1956) served as the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR.
His term began on 17 April 1937, following the resignat ...
(1893–1956), Soviet official
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Yakov Dzhugashvili
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili, ', russian:
Яков Иосифович Джугашвили, ' ( – 14 April 1943) was the eldest child of Joseph Stalin, the son of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. Hi ...
(1907–1943), the oldest son of
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...
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Yakov Eliashberg
Yakov Matveevich Eliashberg (also Yasha Eliashberg; russian: link=no, Яков Матвеевич Элиашберг; born 11 December 1946) is an American mathematician who was born in Leningrad, USSR.
Education and career
Eliashberg receiv ...
(born 1946), American mathematician
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Yakov Ehrlich
Yakov Nikolayevich Erlikh (russian: Яков Николаевич Эрлих; born 3 June 1988) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. He works as a conditioning coach for FC Ufa.
Biography
He made his Russian Football Nat ...
(born 1988), former Russian football player
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Yakov Eshpay (1890–1963), Soviet composer
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Yakov Estrin
Yakov Borisovich Estrin (Russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Эстрин, April 21, 1923 – February 2, 1987) was a Russian chess player, chess theoretician, writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion who held the chess titles of Inte ...
(1923–1987), Soviet chess player
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Yakov Fedorenko
Yakov Nikolayevich Fedorenko (russian: Яков Николаевич Федоренко; 26 March 1947) was a Soviet marshal and commander during World War II.
Life
Yakov Fedorenko was born to a working-class family in Tsareborisovo. He died ...
(1896–1947), Soviet military leader
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Yakov Frenkel
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Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (russian: Яков Ильич Френкель; 10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed matter physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, frequ ...
(1894–1952), Soviet physicist
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Yakov Fliyer
Yakov Vladimirovich Flier (russian: Я́ков Влади́мирович Флие́р; , 1912 – December 18, 1977; last name also spelled Fliere or Fliyer) was a Jewish Russian concert pianist and teacher.
Flier was born in Orekhovo-Zuy ...
(1912–1977), Soviet pianist
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Yakov Gakkel
Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel (russian: Яков Яковлевич Гаккель; July 18, 1901, Saint Petersburg – December 30, 1965, Leningrad) was a Soviet and Russian oceanographer, doctor of geographical sciences (1950), professor, director o ...
(1901–1965), Soviet oceanographer
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Yakov "Yan" Gamarnik (1894–1937), Soviet official
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Yakov Grot
Yakov Karlovich Grot (russian: link=no, Я́ков Ка́рлович Грот) ( – ) was a nineteenth-century Russian philologist of German extraction who worked at the University of Helsinki.
Grot was a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Ly ...
(1812–1893), Russian philologist
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Yakov Kazyansky
Yakov Kazyansky (russian: Яков Казьянский; born Kuybyshev, 30 August 1948) is a Russian musician. He has been named an Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation ( Заслуженный работник культур ...
(born 1948), Russian musician
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Yakov Knyazhnin
Yakov Borisovich Knyazhnin (russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Княжни́н, November 3, 1742 or 1740, Pskov – January 1, 1791, St Petersburg) was Russia's foremost tragic author during the reign of Catherine the Great. Knyazhnin's cont ...
(1740/42–1791), Russian playwright
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Yakov Kozalchik, Polish strongman and professional wrestler who was also known as Shimshon Eisen
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Yakov Kreizberg
Yakov Kreizberg (russian: Яков Крейцберг; born Yakov Mayevich Bychkov, 24 October 1959 – 15 March 2011) was a Russian-born American conductor.
Early years
In the Soviet Union
Yakov Bychkov was born in Leningrad into a family ...
(1959–2011), American conductor
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Yakov Kreizer
Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer (russian: Яков Григорьевич Крейзер; 4 November 1905, Voronezh – 29 November 1969, Moscow) was a Soviet field commander.
Before the war
Kreizer's Jewish parents were granted permission to liv ...
(1905–1969), Soviet military leader
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Yakov Kulnev
Yakov Petrovich Kulnev (russian: Яков Петрович Кульнев; 6 August 1763 – 1 August 1812) was, along with Pyotr Bagration and Aleksey Yermolov, one of the most popular Russian military leaders at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. ...
(1763–1812), Russian military leader
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Yakov Malik
Yakov Alexandrovich Malik (russian: Яков Александрович Малик) (11 February 1980) was a Soviet diplomat.
Biography
Born in Ostroverkhovka village, Kharkov Governorate, Malik was educated at Kharkiv Institute of Nationa ...
(1906–1980), Soviet diplomat
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Yakov Malkiel
Yakov Malkiel (July 22, 1914 – April 24, 1998) was a U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. ...
(1914–1998), American philologist
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Yakov I. Perelman
Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (russian: Яков Исидорович Перельман; – 16 March 1942) was a Russian and Soviet science writer and author of many popular science books, including ''Physics Can Be Fun'' and ''Mathematics Can Be ...
(1882–1942), Soviet writer
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Yakov Permyakov
Yakov Permyakov (russian: Яков Пермяков; died 1712) was a Russian seafarer, explorer, merchant, and Cossack.
In 1710, while sailing from the Lena River to the Kolyma River, Permyakov observed the silhouette of two unknown island group ...
(?–1712), Russian polar explorer
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Yakov Peters Yakov (alternative spellings: Jakov or Iakov, cyrl, Яков) is a Russian or Hebrew variant of the given names Jacob and James. People also give the nickname Yasha ( cyrl, Яша) or Yashka ( cyrl, Яшка) used for Yakov.
Notable people
People ...
(1886–1938), Soviet official
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Yakov Polonsky
Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (russian: Яков Петрович Полонский; ) was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose.
Of noble birth, Polonsky ...
(1819–1898), Russian poet
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Yakov Popok
Yakov Abramovich Popok (1894–1938) served as the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR.
His term began in August 1930, replacing Grigory Aronshtam. He fell ill in early 1937, causing him to resign on 15 April. H ...
(1892–1938), Soviet official
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Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February ( O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of ...
(1881–1945), Russian and Soviet filmmaker
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Yakov Punkin, Soviet Olympic Greco-Roman featherweight wrestling champion
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Yakov Rylsky
Yakov Anufrievich Rylsky (russian: Яков Ануфриевич Рыльский) (25 October 1928 – 9 December 1999) was an Olympic champion and three-time world champion Russian sabre fencer who competed for the Soviet Union. He took part i ...
, Soviet Olympic and world champion saber fencer
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Yakov Sannikov
Yakov Sannikov () (January 29, 1780, Ust-Yansk – 1810s, Sakha Republic) was a Russian merchant and explorer of the New Siberian Islands.
In 1800, Sannikov discovered and charted Stolbovoy Island, and in 1805 Faddeyevsky Island. In 1809–1810, ...
, Russian merchant and explorer
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Yakov Shakhovskoy
Prince Yakov Petrovich Shakhovskoy (russian: Яков Петрович Шаховской) (8 October 1705 – 23 July 1777) was a Russian statesman.
Prince Yakov Shakhovskoy was born in the family of Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Shakhovskoy, who d ...
, Russian statesman
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Yakov G. Sinai
Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (russian: link=no, Я́ков Григо́рьевич Сина́й; born September 21, 1935) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems. He contributed to the modern metric theory of dy ...
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Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis (russian: Яков Наумович Похис; born 24 January 1951), better known as Yakov Smirnoff (russian: Яков Смирнов; ), is a Ukrainian-American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stand ...
, Ukrainian-born American comedian, painter and teacher
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Yakov Springer
Yakov Springer (June 10 1921 – 6 September 1972) was a wrestler and a Powerlifting, weightlifting coach and judge, but is best known as one of the victims of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
During the Holocaust, Springer to ...
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Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (russian: Яков Михайлович Свердлов; 3 June Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O._S._22_May.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S ...
, Bolshevik party leader and official of the Russian Soviet Republic
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Yakov Tolstikov
Yakov Grigoryevich Tolstikov (russian: Я́ков Григо́рьевич То́лстиков; born 20 May 1959 in Prokopyevsk) is a former Russian distance runner. Tolstivov rose to worldwide prominence following his surprise upset of favorite G ...
, Russian distance runner
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Yakov-Yan Toumarkin
Yakov Yan Toumarkin ( he, יעקב יאן טומרקין, russian: Ян Я́ков Тума́ркин; born 15 February 1992) is a Russian-born Israeli Olympic backstroke swimmer. In 2010, he was the European Junior Swimming Champion in the 100- ...
(born 1992), Israeli swimmer
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Yakov Vilner
Yakov Vilner (1899, Odessa – 29 June 1931, Leningrad) was a Ukrainian chess master.
Biography
Vilner won the Odessa chess championships four times (1918, 1923, 1925, and 1928). He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kiev 1924 (ahe ...
, Ukrainian chess master
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Yakov Yurovsky
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky (; Unless otherwise noted, all dates used in this article are of the Gregorian Calendar, as opposed to the Julian Calendar which was used in Russia prior to . – 2 August 1938) was a Russian Old Bolshevik, revo ...
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Old Bolshevik
Old Bolshevik (russian: ста́рый большеви́к, ''stary bolshevik''), also called Old Bolshevik Guard or Old Party Guard, was an unofficial designation for a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Par ...
activist
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Yakov Zak
Yakov Izrailevich Zak ( uk, Яків Ізраїлович Зак), (russian: link=no, Яков Израилевич Зак), ''Jiakov Israilevič Sak''; Odessa, – Moscow, 28 June 1976) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue. People's ...
, Soviet pianist and teacher
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Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich ( be, Я́каў Бары́савіч Зяльдо́віч, russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Зельдо́вич; 8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987), also known as YaB, was a leading Soviet physicist of Bel ...
, Soviet physicist
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Jakov Jakov ( sr-Cyrl, Јаков, ) is a Croatian and Serbian masculine given name, a variant of the biblical names ''Jacob'' and James. Often the nicknames of Jaki/Јаки, Jakša/Јакша and Jakica/Јакица will be used for people bearing the ...
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Yakovlev (surname) Yakovlev (Яковлев, ) is an East Slavic surname derived from the masculine given name Yakov. Yakovleva is the feminine form.
Notable people with the surname include:
* Alexander Yakovlev (disambiguation), several people
* Anatoli Yakovlev (1 ...
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Yakovenko Yakovenko is a surname of Ukrainian origin. Notable people with the surname include:
*Alexander Yakovenko (disambiguation), multiple people
* Dmitri Yakovenko (born 1981), Russian screenwriter and director
*Mariya Yakovenko (born 1982), Russian jav ...
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