Yuri Andropov
There has been much contention over his family background. According to the official biography, Andropov was born in stanitsa Nagutskaya (modern-day Stavropol Krai of Russia) on 15 June 1914. His father Vladimir Konstantinovich Andropov was a railway worker of Don Cossack descent who died from typhus in 1919. His mother Yevgenia Karlovna Fleckenstein (none of the official sources mentioned her name) was a school teacher who died in 1931. She was born in the Ryazan Governorate into a family of town dwellers and was abandoned on the doorstep of a Finnish citizen, a Jewish watchmaker Karl Franzevich Fleckenstein who lived in Moscow; he and his wife Eudokia Mikhailovna Fleckenstein adopted and raised her. Later researches has shown that many details about Andropov's biography were largely falsified during his lifetime which has contributed to the confusion connected to his family history.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Yurovsky
Vladimir Mikhailovich Yurovsky (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Юровский; Tarashcha, 7 [20] March 1915 – 26 January 1972, in Moscow) was a Ukrainian Soviet film music composer. His son is the conductor Michail Jurowski, his grandsons are Vladimir Jurowski (born 4 April 1972) (also named Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski) and Dmitri Jurowski (born 1979), both conductors. He married the daughter of David S. Block (1888-1948), conductor, organizer, the first director of the National Orchestra of Cinematography of the USSR, and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.