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Lev (given Name)
Lev (Greek language, Greek Λέων meaning "lion") is a male Slavic name of Greek origin. The name is also common in Jewish communities and means "heart" in Hebrew and appears as "Leyb" in Yiddish. Common in Russia. The name was brought to Russia with Christianity and was uncommon up until the 20th century, when it became popular after Leo Tolstoy, Lev Tolstoy. People with this name include: * Leo I of Galicia (Lev Danylovych in Ukrainian) (c. 1228 – c. 1301), Knyaz (prince) of Belz, Peremyshl, Halych, Grand Prince of Kyiv and King of Galicia-Volhynia. * Lev Alburt (born 1945), chess Grandmaster and chess writer. * Lev Artsimovich (1909–1973), Soviet physicist. * Lev Berg (1876–1950), Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist. * Lev Brovarskyi (1948–2009), Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach. * Lev Chernyi (died 1921), Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet. * Lev Dengov (born 1984), Russian politician and businessman. * Lev Dyomin (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Slavic Languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavs, Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic language, Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic languages in a Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic group within the Indo-European family. The current geographical distribution of natively spoken Slavic languages includes the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and all the way from Western Siberia to the Russian Far East. Furthermore, the diasporas of many Slavic peoples have established isolated minorities of speakers of their languages all over the world. The number of speakers of all Slavic languages together was estimated to be 315 million at the turn of the twenty-first century. It is the largest and most d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Korchebokov
Lev Nikolayevich Korchebokov (; 11 March 1907 in Tsarskoye Selo – 16 September 1971 in Riga) was a Soviet and Russian football player and manager. Honours as a player *Soviet Top League champion: 1936 (spring), 1937. *Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ... winner: 1937. External links * 1907 births 1971 deaths People from Pushkin, Saint Petersburg People from Tsarskoselsky Uyezd FC Dinamo Minsk managers FC Dynamo Kyiv managers FC Dynamo Moscow managers FC Dynamo Moscow players FC Sokol Saratov managers FK Daugava Rīga managers FK Liepājas Metalurgs managers Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Men's association football defenders Soviet bandy players Soviet football manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Pitaevskii
Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii ( ; 18 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Russian theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics. Together with his PhD supervisor Evgeny Lifshitz and with Vladimir Berestetskii, he was also the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau–Lifschitz '' Course of Theoretical Physics'' series. His academic status was professor. Education Pitaevskii was born in Saratov on 18 January 1933. He graduated from Saratov State University in 1955. In 1958, he joined the staff of the Institute of Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1971, he became a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Research Collaborating with Vitaly Ginzburg, Pitaevskii developed a theory of superfluidity in the neighbourhood of a transition point. He showed that, at sufficiently low temperatures, liquid helium-3 sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Perovski
Count Lev Alekseyevich von Perovski (, also transliterated as Perofsky, Perovskii, Perovskiy, Perovsky, Perowski, and Perowsky; also credited as L.A. Perovski) (9 September 1792 – 21 November 1856) was a Russian nobleman and mineralogist who also served as Minister of Internal Affairs under Nicholas I of Russia. In 1845, he proposed the creation of the Russian Geographical Society. The mineral perovskite Perovskite (pronunciation: ) is a calcium titanium oxide mineral composed of calcium titanate (chemical formula ). Its name is also applied to the class of compounds which have the same type of crystal structure as , known as the perovskite (stru ... is named after him. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Perovski, Lev Interior ministers of the Russian Empire Politicians from the Russian Empire Mineralogists from the Russian Empire 1792 births 1856 deaths Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) Imperial Moscow University alumni Decembrists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Naryshkin
Lev Alexandrovich Naryshkin (; also known as Léon Narychkine) (5 February 1785—1846, Naples) was a Russian Imperial aristocrat who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Biography He was the son of Alexander Lvovich Naryshkin and his wife Maria Alexeyevna Senyavina, daughter of Admiral Alexei Senyavin. This made Lev brother to Elena Aleksandrovna Naryshkina and first cousin to Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the conquest of the Caucasus. Naryshkin was educated at home by private tutors under the French abbé Nicol. He entered the court as a page and became a chamberlain on 15 March 1799. He was made a lieutenant on 22 January 1803 in the Preobrazhensky regiment, then a cavalry captain on 13 February 1807 in the Hussar Regiment of the Imperial Guard. He fought at Gutstadt, Heilsberg and Friedland, where he was wounded in the arm and decorated with a gold sabre. He was demobilised and returned to his work as a chamberlain at the court. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Mei
Lev Aleksandrovich Mei or Mey (; ) was a Russian dramatist and poet. Biography Mei was born on 13/25 February 1822, in Moscow. His father was a German officer who was wounded in the Battle of Borodino and died young. His mother was Russian. Mei completed his studies in Moscow in 1841 and served in the office of the Governor for 10 years. He became part of the "young editorial staff" of Mikhail Pogodin's '' Moskvityanin''. For a time, he taught secondary school, but was forced to retire because of conflicts with his colleagues. He moved to Saint Petersburg, where he was active in literary endeavors. It was during this period that he contributed to the leading Russian magazines, including '' Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya'', '' Otechestvennye Zapiski'', '' Syn Otechestva'', '' Russkoye Slovo'', '' Russkiy Mir'', and '' Svetoch''.М ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Loseff
Lev Loseff (; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator. Early life and education The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad. He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University. Literary career Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976. He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later. In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature. Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH. Works *Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life *Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) *Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Binzumovich Leviev
Lev Binzumovich Leviev (; born June 22, 1984) is a Russian entrepreneur and investor, founder of international venture capital firm LVL1, co-founder of Russia's largest social network '' VK.com'' (originally ''VKontakte'') and the '' Selectel'' data center network. Early life and education Leviev was born in Volgograd. He attended the American school in Herzliya, Israel, where he met his future business partner Vyacheslav Mirilashvili. In 2006, he earned a bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and Accounting at McGill University in Canada, where he graduated with honors. He is married. Early career VK.com In 2006, he co-founded ''VK.com'' with his friends, Yitzchak Mirilashvili and Pavel Durov. Leviev and Vyacheslav invested tens of thousands of dollars in the project. The money was borrowed from Mirilashvili-Sr. Leviev's share was 10%. From the moment of founding the company until 2012, he was the Chief Operating Officer of VK.com. Yuri Milner's ''Digital Sky Techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Avnerovich Leviev
Lev Avnerovich Leviev (; born 30 July 1956) is an Israeli diamond magnate, investor and philanthropist. Leviev was the chairman and majority shareholder of Africa Israel Investments, a diversified conglomerate, between 1997 and 2018. Leviev lived in Israel between 1971 and 2007 and moved to reside in London. He is a noted philanthropist for Chabad Lubavitch causes in Eastern Europe and Israel. In 2018, Leviev had a net worth of US$1 billion according to Forbes. Early life Leviev was born in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, in 1956. His family moved to Israel in 1971 where he lived until 2007 when he moved to London. His parents, Avner and Chana Leviev, were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community, and Leviev is a practicing Orthodox Jew. He is a supporter of the Chabad movement, but as a Bukharian Jew he was brought up in the Bukharian liturgy. In 1971, when he was fifteen, his family emigrated from Uzbekistan to Israel. Alisher Usmanov's father was the prosecutor in T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Leshchenko
Lev Valerianovich Leshchenko (; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer, who is best known for his rendition of " Den Pobedy" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme song " Do svidanya, Moskva". Biography Lev Leshchenko was born on 1 February 1942 in Moscow, Soviet Union. His father, Valerian Andreyevich Leshchenko (1904–2004), was a Red Army officer who was at war outside of Moscow. His grandfather was from the village of Nizy in the Kharkov province, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. In 1900, he moved to the Kursk province, where he got a job as an accountant at a factory. Grandfather Leshchenko was a musical person: he sang in the church choir, played many instruments. Lev Valeryanovich's father moved to Moscow in 1931. Having gone through the Winter War, and then the Great Patriotic War, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was awarded many orders. He was awarded medals for his participation in the Second World War. His mother, Klav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau (; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was considered as one of the last scientists who were universally well-versed and made seminal contributions to all branches of physics. He is credited with laying the foundations of twentieth century condensed matter physics, and is also considered arguably the greatest Soviet theoretical physicist. His accomplishments include the independent co-discovery of the density matrix method in quantum mechanics (alongside John von Neumann), the quantum mechanical theory of diamagnetism, the theory of superfluidity, the theory of second-order phase transitions, invention of order parameter technique, the Ginzburg–Landau theory of superconductivity, the theory of Fermi liquids, the explanation of Landau damping in plasma physics, the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, the two-component theory of neutrinos, and Landau's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lev Khrshchonovich
Lev Kazimirovich Khrshchonovich (, 1838-1907), last name also spelled Chrśonowicz, Chrszczonowicz, Hrszczonowicz, Hrśonowicz, and Xrşçonoviç, was the chief architect of Kazan in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. He was a son of Minsk architect Kazimierz Chrśonowicz, an ethnic Pole. Khrshchonovich graduated from the Saint Petersburg Architect School in 1859 and was sent to Kazan. In 1874–1882, he was the Chief Architect of the Kazan Governorate, and in 1883–1907 he held the post of the Chief Engineer of the governorate. Khrshchonovich designed the Lutheran Church (1870s), the Alafuzov Theatre (1900), the first stone bridge over Bolaq (1907), and he managed the reconstruction of the Roman-Catholic Church (1907). Khrshchonovich was a follower of eclecticism Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
