Famous People with Name Grigory

Grigory Ivanovich Kulik            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Grigory Ivanovich Kulik: was a Soviet military commander and was born into a peasant family near Poltava in Ukraine. A soldier in the army of the Russian Empire in World War I, he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917 and the Red Army in 1918. During the Russian Civil War he become

Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky: is a Russian economist, and politician. He is best known as the author of 500 Days, a plan for the transition of the USSR into a free-market economy, and for his leadership of the liberal Yabloko party. Yavlinsky was born into a relatively well-off family in Lviv, Ukraine. His father Alexei was an officer, while his mother Vera taught chemistry at an institute. Both his parents are buried in Lviv, and his brother Mikhail lives there.

Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Grigory Nikolayevich Neujmin: was a Soviet/Russian astronomer.He is credited with the discovery of 74 asteroids, and notably 951 Gaspra[1] and 762 Pulcova. The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name G. N. Neujmin, and his surname appears this way in the literature. However, the modern English transliteration of his name would be Neuymin.He also discovered or co-discovered a number of periodic comets, including 25D/Neujmin, 28P/Neujmin, 42P/Neujmin, 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte and 58P/Jackson-Neujmin. The asteroid 1129 Neujmina was named in his honour.

Grigory Abramovich Shajn            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Grigory Abramovich Shajn: was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical discoveries are credited under the name G. Shajn. Nonetheless, his last name is sometimes given as Schajn.He worked on stellar spectroscopy and the physics of gaseous nebulas. Together with Otto Struve, he studied the rapid rotation of stars of young spectral types and measured the radial velocities of stars. He discovered new gaseous nebulas and the anomalous abundance of 13C in stellar atmospheres.He became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1939, and was also a member of various foreign societies such as the Royal Astronomical Society. From 1945 to 1952 he was the director of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.

Grigory Kirillovich Razumovsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Grigory Kirillovich Razumovsky: was a Ukrainian nobleman, political philosopher, botanist, zoologist and geologist known from his writings in the West as Gregor, who lost his Russian titles in 1811 for verbally attacking Emperor Alexander I and was subsequently incorporated into the Bohemian nobility (Inkolat im Herrenstande) and accorded the rank of Count in the Austrian Empire.