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Andrei
Andrei, Andrey or Andrej (in Cyrillic script: Андрэй, Андрей or Андреј) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: * Andrei of Polotsk (–1399), Lithuanian nobleman *Andrej Babiš (born 1954), Czech prime minister *Andrey Belousov (born 1959), Russian politician *Andrey Bolotov (1738–1833), Russian agriculturalist and memoirist * Andrey Borodin (born 1967), Russian financial expert and businessman * Andrei Broder (born 1953), Romanian-Israeli American computer scientist and engineer * Andrei Chikatilo (1936–1994), prolific and cannibalistic Russian serial killer and rapist * Andrei Denisov (weightlifter) (born 1963), Israeli Olympic weightlifter * Andrey Ershov (1931–1988), Russian computer scientist * Andrey Esionov, Russian painter *Andrei Glavina (1881–1925), Istro-Romanian writer and politician *Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), Belarusian Soviet politician and diplomat *Andrei Iosivas (born 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Kanchelskis
Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis (; ; born 23 January 1969) is a Russian professional Association football, football coach and former player who currently manages Russian Second League side FC Dynamo Bryansk, Dynamo Bryansk. During his playing career, he won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup, the EFL Cup, Football League Cup, two FA Community Shield, FA Charity Shields and the UEFA Super Cup, European Super Cup with Manchester United F.C., Manchester United, before going on to win the Scottish Premier League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup twice each with Rangers F.C., Rangers. Kanchelskis began his career with his hometown team FC Zirka Kropyvnytskyi, Zirka Kirovohrad in 1986, before transferring to FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv in the Soviet Top League, and later to Klasychne derby, rivals FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Shakhtar Donetsk. He then moved abroad, signing for English club Manchester United F.C., Manchester United, where he helped the team win List of English football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Gromyko
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko ( – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as List of heads of state of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. In the 1940s, Western pundits called him ''Mr. Nyet'' ("Mr. No"), or ''Grim Grom'', because of his frequent use of the Soviet United Nations Security Council veto power, veto in the United Nations Security Council. Gromyko's political career started in 1939 in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (renamed Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1946). He became the Soviet ambassador to the United States in 1943, leaving that position in 1946 to become the Soviet Permanent representative, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Upon his return to Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Of Polotsk
Andrei of Polotsk (; ; ; – 12 August 1399) was the eldest son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his first wife Maria of Vitebsk. He was the Prince of Pskov (through his deputy Yuri, 1342–1348) and Polotsk (1342–1387). As the eldest son of the Grand Duke, Andrei claimed his right to the throne after his father's death in 1377. Algirdas left Jogaila, his eldest son with his second wife Uliana of Tver, as the rightful heir. Andrei's rivalry with Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania and later King of Poland, eventually led to his demise. Prince of Pskov and Polotsk In 1342, Andrei joined his father Algirdas and uncle Kęstutis in a war against the Livonian Order to help the Pskov Republic. The Republic asked him to stay as a prince of Pskov so that his presence would guarantee continuous support from Algirdas. Andrei accepted and was baptized in Orthodox rite (his pagan name is unknown).The Bychowiec Chronicle records his pagan name as ''Vingolt'', which Maciej S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Chikatilo
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (; ; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexual assault, sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR. Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders; he was tried for fifty-three murders in April 1992. He was convicted and Capital punishment in Russia, sentenced to death for fifty-two of these murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled in 1993 that Burden of proof (law), insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Chikatilo was executed by gunshot in February 1994. Chikatilo was known as "the Rostov Ripper" and "the Butcher of Rostov" because he committed most of his murders in the Rostov Oblast of the Russian SFSR. Early life Childhood Andrei Chikatilo was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Iosivas
Andrei Iosivas (born October 15, 1999; ) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Princeton Tigers and was selected by the Bengals in the sixth round of the 2023 NFL draft. Early life Iosivas was born in Tokyo, Japan, on October 15, 1999, to a Filipino mother and Romanian father. The family moved to Honolulu in 2003, where he attended Punahou School. He became an American citizen when he was 17. College career Iosivas played on Princeton's junior varsity team as a freshman. As a sophomore, he caught 18 passes for 263 yards and four touchdowns. Iosivas's initial junior season in 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and he took a gap year. In 2021, he caught 41 passes for 703 yards and five touchdowns and was named second-team All-Ivy League. Iosivas entered his senior season as the 15th-most athletic player in college football on sportswriter Bruce Feldman's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Karlov
Andrei Gennadyevich Karlov (; 4 February 1954 – 19 December 2016) was a Russian diplomat who served as the List of ambassadors of Russia to Turkey, Russian ambassador to Turkey and earlier as the Russian Russian Ambassador to North Korea, ambassador to North Korea. On the evening of 19 December 2016, while speaking at an art gallery exhibition in Ankara, Turkey, Assassination of Andrei Karlov, he was shot to death by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty Turkish policeman. Early life and education Andrei Gennadyevich Karlov was born in Moscow on 4 February 1954 to Gennady Karlov and Maria Alexandrovna. He also had a sister named Yelena Shirankova who was 6 years younger than him. In 1968, Karlov's father died at the age of 37 from heart failure when Karlov was 14 years old. In 1976, Karlov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. That same year, he joined the diplomatic service. He was also fluent in Korean and English. Career In 1992, he gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Ivanov (other)
Andrei or Andrey Ivanov may refer to: Footballers * Andrei Ivanov (footballer, 1967-2009), Soviet football defender * Anatoli Ivanov (footballer, born 1972), Russian football goalkeeper * Andrei Ivanov (footballer, born 1988), Russian football left-back * Andrei Ivanov (footballer, born 1994), Russian football defender * Andrei Ivanov (Bulgarian footballer), Bulgarian footballer, Vladislav Varna Others * Andrei Ivanov (Bolshevik) (born 1888), Soviet politician * Andrei Ivanov (ice hockey) (born 1981), Russian ice hockey player * Andrei Ivanov (basketball) (born 1984), Russian basketball player in the Russia national basketball team * Andrey Ivanov (swimmer) (born 1976), Russian swimmer * Andrei Ivanov (singer), Russian singer in ''War and Peace'' (opera) * Andrey Ivanov (skier) (born 1973), Russian Olympic skier * Andrei Ivanov (writer) (born 1971), Estonian-Russian writer * Andrey Ivanov (painter) (1775-1848), Russian painter * Nader Sufyan Abbas, Qatari-Bulgarian weightlifter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Broder
Andrei Zary Broder (born April 12, 1953) is a distinguished scientist at Google. Previously, he was a research fellow and vice president of computational advertising for Yahoo!, and before that, the vice president of research for AltaVista. He has also worked for IBM Research as a distinguished engineer and was CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Education and career Broder was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1953. His parents were medical doctors, his father a noted oncological surgeon. They emigrated to Israel in 1973, when Broder was in the second year of college in Romania, in the Electronics department at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. He was accepted at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in the EE Department. Broder graduated from Technion in 1977, with a B.Sc. summa cum laude. He was then admitted to the PhD program at Stanford, where he initially planned to work in the systems area. His first adviser was John L. Hennessy. After receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrey Borodin
Andrey Fridrikhovich Borodin (; born Moscow, 24 May 1967) is a Russian financial expert, economist and businessman who until 2011 was President of Bank of Moscow. He and his first deputy Dmitri Akulinin were dismissed from office by the court for the period of the investigation due to the Premier Estate criminal case, charged with abuse of authority. In April 2011, the meeting of the bank's shareholders dismissed them. Since April 2011, Borodin has lived in London, England, and since November 2011 until May 2016 has been on an Interpol Red Notice, wanted as a suspect in a 13-billion-rouble fraud committed in Bank of Moscow under his governance. In August 2012 he bought Park Place, a house near Henley-on-Thames. He was granted political asylum in the UK in February 2013. Education and early career Borodin served in the KGB Border Troops from 1985 to 1987. Following his service, he enrolled at the Moscow Finance Institute. From 1989 to 1990 while at the Moscow Finance Instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Glavina
Andrei Glavina (30 November 1881 – 9 February 1925; ; ) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Istro-Romanian writer, professor and politician born in Šušnjevica. Known as the "Apostle of the Istro-Romanians", he is recognized for his struggle for the Istro-Romanian culture and language, being notable his book ''Calindaru lu rumeri din Istrie'', the first in history written in this language in collaboration with Constantin Diculescu. He also managed the creation of an Istro-Romanian municipality in 1922 being the first mayor, giving classes in Istro-Romanian in the only school of the municipality. Glavina was born in 1881 in the village of Šušnjevica. At age 12, he was taken to Romania by the Romanian ethnographer and folklorist Teodor Burada to be educated at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași. Then he would return to Istria to teach in two other villages until the opening of the first school in Šušnjevica by Italy just after the end of the World War I. Biograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Denisov (weightlifter)
Andrei Denisov (; born June 3, 1963) is an Israeli Olympic weightlifter. Denisov is Jewish. When he competed in the Olympics, he weighed . Denisov competed for Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics at the age of 29 in Barcelona, Spain, in Weightlifting—Men's Heavyweight (100 kg), and came in 6th, lifting 377.5 kg. He lifted in the snatch, and in the clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without rest ..., coming short of a medal by . References 1963 births Living people Jewish Israeli sportspeople Jewish weightlifters Israeli male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Israel 20th-century Israeli sportsmen {{Israel-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew
Andrew is the English form of the given name, common in many countries. The word is derived from the , ''Andreas'', itself related to ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew. Popularity In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in List of countries where English is an official language, English-speaking countries. Australia In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia after James. In 1999, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing. In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s. Canada Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for male infants in 2005. Andrew was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
