Famous People with Name Georgy

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov: was a Russian and Soviet neoromantic composer. Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was born in 1915 in the town of Fatezh in the Kursk guberniya of the Russian Empire. His father, Vasily Sviridov, a sympathizer of the Bolshevik cause during the Russian Civil War

Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov: was a Soviet politician and political scientist. He was one of the half-dozen aides closest to Mikhail Gorbachev both while he was Soviet leader and after his fall from power at the collapse of the Soviet Union. Shakhnazarov was an early advocate of refor

Georgy Lisitsin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Lisitsin: was a Russian chess master.He won thrice Leningrad City Chess Championship in 1933/34 (joint), 1939 and 1947 (joint). He participated many times in USSR Chess Championship. His best result was in 1933 when he shared 3rd (Mikhail Botvinnik won). He also played in international tournaments, finishing 15th at Moscow 1935 (Botvinnik and Salo Flohr won), and took 2nd at Helsinki 1946 (Viacheslav Ragozin won).

Georgy Shishkin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Shishkin: Russian painter.As a child he showed an early passion for drawing, and by his tenth year he was enrolled the Fine Art School. During all of his youth, the teenager was al always deeply influenced by the atmosphere at his great-grand-parents’ house, steeped with authentic russian traditions conserved during the soviet regime. Young Shishkin travelled to the many old cities in his region. With his easel, he visited monasteries and paid close attention to the icons and frescoes. In the Vladimir Cathedral, an ex-capital of Russia, he was struck by the works of Andrei Rublev, considered the first Russian painter. He was a graduate of the National Fine Arts and Architecture School (Academy) in his home town, in 1975, then a trainee at the Stroganoff Institute of Industrial and Fine Arts in Moscow. Georgy Shishkin was a professor of drawing and painting for about 10 years at this Institute where he started as a trainee.

Georgy Tenadze            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Georgy Tenadze: is a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.