(Courtesy: Vitali Charny/JewishGen)
The following list is a translation of names and minimal personal data for 8,500 people included in Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia (Rossiyskaya Evreiskaya Entsiclopediya); first edition; 1995, Moscow.
Famous people who are listed in the book, which in fact is a biographical dictionary, were born in Russia, the USSR, the Russian Empire, or lived there. This is the first edition of this kind in Russia and a large group of specialist from Russia, Israel and other countries participated in the project.
There are many more well known people in Russia to be included in the next edition of the book. We have to remember that the success of many of these people was achieved against all odds related to limited opportunities that Jews had in Russia.
The translation is an attempt to inform people about this additional source available for researchers.
Surname | Given Name | Patronymic | Birth Date | Birth Place | Death Date | Death Place | Occupation | Other Name |
Abramovich | Mikhail | – | 1860 | Berdichev | 1940 | Brussels | Author | – |
Bak | Israel | – | 1797 | Berdichev | 1874 | Jerusalem | Publisher | – |
Bely | Victor | Arkadevich | 1904 | Berdichev | 1983 | Moscow | Music | – |
Boksis | Rakhil | Markovna | 1902 | Berdichev | 1976 | Moscow | Education | – |
Bukh | Aron | Froimovich | 1923 | Berdichev | – | – | Artist | – |
Chichelnitsky | Ikhil | Moiseevich | 1909 | Berdichev | 1980 | Moscow | Journalism | – |
Fadeeva | Irma | Lvovna | 1938 | Berdichev | – | – | History | – |
Fainberg | Izrail | – | 1887 | Berdichev | 1952 | Los Angeles | Union Leader | – |
Faintukh | Solomon | Yevseevich | 1899 | Berdichev | 1985 | Kharkov | Music | – |
Faintukh | Yacov | Samoilovich | 1892 | Berdichev | 1974 | Odessa | Music | – |
Feldman | Zinovy | Petrovich | 1893 | Berdichev | 1942 | Moscow | Music | – |
Finkelshtein | Vladimir | Solomonovich | 1896 | Berdichev | 1937 | – | Physical Chemistry | – |
Fishzon | Avrom-Alter | – | 1843 ou 1848 | Berdichev | 1922 | Harbin China | Performing Art | – |
Fratkin | Boris | Abramovich | 1907 | Berdichev | 1966 | Moscow | Public Health | – |
Gartsman | Motl | Davidovich | 1909 | Berdichev | 1943 | – | Author | – |
Gelman | Polina | Vladimirovna | 1919 | Berdichev | – | – | Military Hero | – |
Goldenberg | Grigory | Davidovich | 1855 | Berdichev | 1880 | St. Petersburg | Revolutionary | Grishka, Bikonsfild |
Gontar | Avram | Yutkovich | 1908 | Berdichev | 1981 | Moscow | Author | – |
Gorovits | Vladimir | Samoilovich | 1904 | Berdichev | 1989 | New York | Music | – |
Gurlyand | Ilya | Yakovlevich | 1868 | Berdichev | 1921 | – | Author | Ilya Maximilian |
Kadishev | Arnold | Borisovich | 1895 | Berdichev | 1968 | Moscow | History | – |
Kagan | Avrom | Yakovlevich | 1901 | Berdichev | 1965 | Kiev | Author | – |
Kaidanov | Grigory | Zinovevich | 1959 | Berdichev | – | – | Chess | – |
Kaminka | Agaron | – | 1866 | Berdichev | 1950 | Israel | Rabbi | – |
Kamrash | Volf | – | 1822 | Berdichev | ? | – | Education | – |
Kargman | Izrail | Lvovich | 1906 | Berdichev | 1987 | Israel | Politics | – |
Kart | Viktor | Emmanuilovich | 1929 | Berdichev | – | – | Chess | – |
Khazin | Alexander | Abramovich | 1912 | Berdichev | 1976 | Leningrad | Author | – |
Kornfeld | Yakov | Abramovich | 1896 | Berdichev | 1968 | Moscow | Architect | – |
Kotlyar | Iosif | Solomovich | 1908 | Berdichev | 1962 | Vilnius | Author | – |
Krasnyi | Pinkhas | – | 1881 | Berdichev | 1939 | – | Public Figure | – |
Krivorutsky | Petr | Moiseevich | 1920 | Berdichev | 1987 | Berdichev | Sculptor | Peisakh-Leizer |
Lerner | Iosif-Ieguha | – | 1847 | Berdichev | 1907 | – | Author | – |
Levi Yitzhak | – | – | 1740 | Gusakov-Vost-Galizia | 1810 | Berdichev | Tzadik | Derbaremdiker |
Linder | – | – | 1885 | Berdichev | 1960 | New York | Author | Naftali Blinder |
Livshits | Shiya Mordkhe | – | 1829 | Berdichev | 1878 | Berdichev | Philologist | Ieshayagu |
Loiter | Efraim | Barukhovich | 1889 | Berdichev | 1963 | Moscow | Enterteinment Director | – |
Loiter | Naum | Borisovich | 1890 | Berdichev | 1966 | Riga – Latvia | Enterteinment Director | Nakhum Borukhovich |
Modestov | Yuly | Aaronovich | 1870/74 | Berdichev | 1921 | Ekaterinburg | Singer | Bluvshtein |
Morgulis | Mikhail | Grigorevich | 1837 | Berdichev | 1912 | Odessa | Author | Menashe |
Nister | – | – | 1884 | Berdichev | 1950 | Abez – Komi | Author | Der Nister; Pinkhas Mendeleevich Kaganovich |
Notovich | Moishe | – | 1912 | Berdichev | 1968 | Kazan | Literature Study | – |
Prilutsky | Noy | Germanovich | 1882 | Berdichev | 1941 | Vilnius | Linguistics | Noakh |
Rabinovich | Moisey | Abramovich | 1857 | Berdichev | Aft.1885 | Kazan | Revolutionary | – |
Rapoport | Shmuel-Yakov | – | 1881 | Berdichev | Aft.1962 | – | Financier, Public Figure | – |
Rikman | Emanuil | Abramovich | 1923 | Berrdichev | 1987 | Moscow | Archeologist | – |
Rottenberg | Izrail | – | 1800 | Galicia | 1891 | Berdichev | Medicine | – |
Rubb | Aleksander | Aronovich | 1921 | Berdichev | – | – | Entertenment Director | – |
Shaffer | Morris | – | 1907 | Berdichev | 1980 | New York | Medicine | – |
Shenkar | Mordekhay | Elyakum-Getselevich | 1904 | Berdichev | 1982 | Bnei Brak-Israel | Public Figure | – |
Sonts | Ana | Efimovna | 1897 | Berdichev | 1968 | Dnepropetrovsk | Performing Art | – |
Tamir | Iosif | – | 1915 | Berdichev | – | – | Politics | – |
Zeidenberg | Saveliy | Moiseevich | 1862 | Berdichev | 1942 | Yaroslavl | Artist | – |