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Repin, Ilya Yefimovich

(Encyclopedia)Repin, Ilya Yefimovich ēlyäˈ yĭfēˈməvĭch ryĕˈpĭn [key], 1844–1930, Russian historical and genre painter and sculptor. He studied in St. Petersburg and abroad and became the foremost repre...

Prigogine, Ilya

(Encyclopedia)Prigogine, Ilya prĭgˈəjēn [key], 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, b. Moscow. He was raised and educated in Belgium, receiving his doctorate in 1941 and joining the faculty of the Free Univ. of Brusse...

Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich

(Encyclopedia)Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich răspyo͞oˈtĭn, Rus. grĭgôˈrē yĭfēˈməvĭch rəspo͞oˈtyĭn [key], 1869–1916, Russian holy man and courtier, a notorious figure at the court of Czar Nicholas I...

Nemtsov, Boris Yefimovich

(Encyclopedia)Nemtsov, Boris Yefimovich, 1959–2015, Russian physicist and politician. He worked at the Gorky Radiophysics Research Institute (1981–90) before he was elected to the Soviet Congress of People's De...

Andrianov, Nikolai Yefimovich

(Encyclopedia)Andrianov, Nikolai Yefimovich, 1952–2011, Russian gymnast. Andrianov excelled especially in the rings and floor exercises. He joined the Soviet national team in 1970 and won his first international ...

Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich

(Encyclopedia)Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich, 1908–90, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1935. He was a professor at Moscow State Univ. from 1944 until his death in 1990. Mikhailovich and Igor Y. Tamm won the...

Ilf, Ilya Arnoldovich

(Encyclopedia)Ilf, Ilya Arnoldovich ēlyäˈ ərnôlˈdəvĭch ēlf [key], 1897–1937, Russian humorist whose original name was Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg. In all his writing he collaborated with Yevgeny Petrovi...

Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigoryevich

(Encyclopedia)Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigoryevich ēlyäˈ grĭgôrˈyəvĭch āˈrənbo͝ork [key], 1891–1967, Russian journalist and novelist, whose name is also spelled Erenburg. He wandered throughout Western Europe...

Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich

(Encyclopedia)Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich yĭvgāˈnyē pētrôˈvĭch pētrôfˈ [key], 1903–42, Russian writer and journalist; brother of the dramatist Valentin P. Katayev. His original name was Yevgeny Petrovich...

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