Where was Yane Ivanov Sandanski born?
Yane Sandanski
Sandanski was born in the village of Vlahi near Kresna in Ottoman Empire on May 18, 1872. His father Ivan participated as a standard-bearer in the Kresna-Razlog Uprising. After the crush of the uprising, in 1879 his family moved to Dupnitsa, Bulgaria, where Sandanski received his elementary education. From 1892 to 1894 he was a soldier in the Bulgarian army. Sandanski was an active supporter of the Radoslavov's wing of the Liberal Party and shortly after it came to power in February 1899, he was appointed head of the Dupnitsa Prison. Because of that, his name ""Sandanski"" distorted from ""Zindanski"" that comes from Turkish ""Zindancı"" (lit. "Dungeon Keeper" or "Jailer").
Yane Sandanski was involved in the Revolutionary Movement in Macedonia and Thrace and became one of its leaders. He joined initially the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC) in 1895 during an incursion into the Muslim-inhabited regions of the central Rhodopes ìn Thrace. In the next five years, Sandanski was a SMAC activist in the Pirin region, but in 1900 returned to become a director of the local prison in Dupnitsa. In 1901, Sandanski switched to the Internal Macedono-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). He built up the organization’s network of committees in the districts of Serres and Gorna Dzhumaja in the Pirin region, and that is why the people gave him the nickname "PirinTsar" (Pirinski Tsar). He was also one from the organizers of the Miss Stone Affair - America's first modern hostage crisis. On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. Sandanski was also active in the anti-Ottoman Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. The Militias active in the region of Serres, led by Yane Sandanski and an insurgent detachment of the "Macedonian Supreme Committee", held down a large Turkish force. These actions began on the day of the Feast of the Cross and did not involve the local population as much as in other regions, but were well to the east of Monastir and to the west of Thrace.
Yane Sandanski
As a whole, during the early 20th century the idea of a separate Macedonian identity was promoted only by small circles of intellectuals, but the majority of the Slavic people in Macedonia considered themselves to be Bulgarians. The turn-of-the-century Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, was in fact a largely pro-Bulgarian oriented and its members had ethnic Bulgarian identity, including Sandaski.
Vane Ivanović
Vane (pronounced "Vahnay") Ivanović (pronounced "Ivanovich") was born in 1913 in Osijek, Austria-Hungary to a Jewish Croat father and a Serb mother. His father, Ivan Rikard Ivanović, was originally born with the surname Kraus but like so many Jewish families feeling persecuted by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they changed their name and converted to Catholicism. Ivan Rikard subsequently became a representative in Croatia's Sabor (Assembly). His mother, Milica (b. 26 February 1888) was a sister of Dušan Popović, a leading Serb politician in the ruling Croat-Serb Coalition. Svetozar Pribićević, the other leading Serb in the Coalition, was the best man at Rikard and Milica's wedding in July 1912, while Ivan Lorković, member of Ivan Rikard Ivanović's party and the leading Croat in the Coalition, was Ivanović's godfather. Ivanović had a younger brother, Vladimir, born 1917, and a younger sister, Daška Ivanović (pronounced "Dashka"), born in 1915.
Ivan Yankovsky
Ivan Yankovsky was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Ivan's parents are actor and director Filipp Yankovsky and actress Oksana Fandera. Younger sister Elizaveta is also an actress.
Yane Sandanski
Arguably Sandanski's greatest sin in the context of the whole movement were the assassinations of the vojvod Michail Daev and later of Ivan Garvanov and Boris Sarafov, both members of the IMARO's Central Committee. He came to regret these and other murders later. Because of that he was even sentenced to death by the "Centralists". The Bulgarian authorities investigated the assassinations and suspected Sandanski was the main force behind them. On the other hand, he was amnestied by the Bulgarian Parliament after the support he gave to the Bulgarian Army during the Balkan wars.
Ivane Gomarteli
Gomarteli was born in the village of Gorisa in the western Georgian province of Imereti, then part of the Kutais Governorate of the Russian Empire. After graduating from the Medical Faculty of Moscow University in 1899, Gomarteli practiced medicine in his homeland. Around the same time he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party and later adhered to its Menshevik wing. He regularly published medical articles, political commentary and literary criticism in the Georgian press and authored prose fiction. In 1906, he was elected to the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire, representing the Kutais Governorate. When the Duma was dissolved, Gomarteli was imprisoned for three months for signing the Vyborg Manifesto. In 1907, he moved to work in Tiflis. By 1913, he had distanced himself from the Mensheviks, criticizing their subservience to the Russian Social Democratic Party on the national question and, like the fellow Menshevik journalist Vladimir Darchiashvili, supported the idea of territorial autonomy for Georgia.
Ivan Myrnyi
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He was born on July 6, 1954, Ruchky Village, Hadiach Raion, Poltava Oblast, USSR). 
From 1973 to 1975 — was serving in the Soviet Army.
In 1987 — graduated from Law Enforcement Academy MIA USSR. 
From 1977 to 2002 — an inspector, a deputy manager of the Head of Criminal Investigation Department of District Executive Committee (Chernivtsi); 
The first Deputy Head of Department, a director of the Organized Crime Unit;
The first Deputy Head of Department, a director of criminal police of Administration of Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chernivtsi Oblast.
From 2002 to 2003 — a director’s deputy manager of “Highrock Holding Limited” (Kyiv) firm representation. 
From 2005 to 2007 — a vice-president on general questions LLC with Foreign Investments of airline company «EES-Avia» (Kyiv).
Ivan Godlevsky
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Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar was born in the Carniolan town of Vrhnika near Ljubljana. He was one of the many children of a poor artisan who emigrated to Bosnia shortly after Ivan's birth. He was raised by his mother, Neža Cankar née Pivk, with whom he established a close, but ambivalent relationship. The figure of a self-sacrificing and submissively repressive mother would later become one of the most recognizable features of Cankar's prose. After finishing grammar school in his hometown, he studied at the Technical High School ("Realka") in Ljubljana.
Variani
In addition to Iakob Gogebashvili, who was born in Variani in 1841, the boxer Georgi Kandelaki who won the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the Superheavyweight category and competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, was born on 10 April 1971 in Variani.
Yuriy Sadovenko
Sadovenko was born on September 11, 1969, in Zhytomyr, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School in 1990 and the same year began serving in the Russian Armed Forces where he was a participant in combat operations. Four years later he served at the Ministry of Emergency Situations where he used to rescue and provide humanitarian aid until 2002, and from that year until 2007. From 2002 to 2007, he was an Assistant to the Minister in the same place. In 2007, he became Head of the Office there, and from May to November 2012 became the Head of the Executive Office of the Moscow Oblast. On January 9, 2013, Sadovenko was appointed as a Head of the Office by Presidential Decree.
Ivan Nestorovski
Ivan was born in Kumanovo a small town in south of Yugoslavia today Macedonia. He claims that he noticed that he had healing powers when he was only 3 years old and healed his grandmother hand.
He is periodically visiting Macedonian diaspora in Europe. In 2016 he appered on TV Sonce as guest on Voice of the People talk show. He also organizes donations for people in need.
Jovan Babunski
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Daniel Jordanov
Jordanov was born in 1971 in Burgas, Bulgaria on the Black Sea coast. He graduated from the Art School in Burgas and later, in 1994, from the Veliko Tarnovo University "Sts. Cyril and Methodius", speciality Art of Graphics. Since 1991, he has been participating in many national and international group exhibitions and twelve one-man shows. His artworks are a possession of collections in Bulgaria, England, USA, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, Austria, Greece. Most important are: ChankArt-Ankara, EgeArt-Izmir, Art Bosphorus-Istanbul, Unesco Art and Heritage-Romania. He is head organizer of Byala Open Air Art Show and Urgup-Capadocia Art Trip.
Konstantin Antonov
Konstantin Ivanov was born in Stara Zagora in 1879. His father was a local revolutionary worker. He studied in the Plovdiv Gymnasium, where he was influenced by the representative of the Geneve group, Dimo Nikolov, to accept the socialist ideas. He went to Lyubimets with Nikolov to get acquainted with the conditions in the Odrin Vilayet. There he met Pavel Genadiev, who attracted him to the revolutionary cause. Genadiev managed to appoint Ivanov teacher in Aharkyoy, Odrin region. He became a member of the Odrin regional revolutionary committee of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) and founded committees in Aharkyoy and the neighbouring villages – , Dogandzha, Kaikkyoy, Haskyoy, Fikel, Vazgash, Hadzhikyoy and others. However, Konstantin Antonov was forced to escape to Odrin and later to Bulgaria because of betrayal which happened in the village of Kemal.
Tatevik Sazandaryan
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Yane Sandanski
The failure of the Ilinden insurrection resulted in the eventual split of the IMARO into a left (federalist) faction in the Seres and Strumica districts and a right-wing faction (centralists) in the Bitola, Salonica and Uskub districts. The left-wing faction opposed Bulgarian nationalism and advocated the creation of a Balkan Socialist Federation with equality for all subjects and nationalities. The centralist faction of IMARO, moved towards Bulgarian nationalism as its regions became incursed of Serb and Greek armed bands, which started infiltrating Macedonia after 1903. The years 1905–1907 saw the split between the two factions, when in 1907 Todor Panitsa killed the right-wing activists Boris Sarafov and Ivan Garvanov in order of Sandanski. The Kjustendil congress of the right faction of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) in 1908, sentenced Sandanski to death, and led to a final disintegration of the organization.
Simeon Djankov
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Ivan Lavsky
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Igor Sadykov
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Yane Sandanski
There was, a long history of friction between the Bulgarian Exarchate and the Organization, since those more closely connected with the Exarchate were moderates rather than revolutionaries. Thus the two bodies had never been able to see eye to eye on a number of important issues touching the population in Thrace and Macedonia. In his regular reports to the Exarch, the Bulgarian bishop in Melnik usually referred to Yane as "the wild beast" and deliberately spelt his name without capital letters. Despite extreme leftist he also had ever rejected the Bulgarian Exarchate as an institution, or denied that it had a role to play in the life of the Macedonian Bulgarians. Sandanski also collaborated later with the Young Turks, opposing other factions of IMARO, which fought against the Ottoman authorities in this period.
Andon Dončevski
Born in Kavadarci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he played with FK Vardar youth team in 1952. He was incorporated into the first team of Vardar, becoming their main goal scorer in the Yugoslav First League and Second League amassing a record 217 goals. Among the awards for his efficiency and scoring was an invitation from Red Star Belgrade to play on their team during their tour in South America. He later coached Vardar from 1985 to 1988. In the 1986–1987 season he won the title with Vardar but after legal proceedings the title was given to Partizan. Dončevski took a new challenge to pass on his experience abroad to Anorthosis Famagusta, Espérance de Tunis, Preston Lions FC, the VPL, in Australia.
Yana Zhdanova
Zhdanova was born in Makiivka, at that time under Soviet rule. After attending schools in Makiivka and Donetsk, she attended the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts in Kiev. She graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor's degree, and in 2010 received a Master's degree in History of Culture. From 2009 to 2012 she worked as a dancer in small theatres and nightclubs in Kiev, while art, like literature and architecture, remains a precious component of her life.
Vyacheslav Yanovskiy
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Yordan Bozdanski
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John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Born in 1896 in the village of Adamovka in the Kharkov Governorate (in present-day eastern Ukraine). He came from the same family of Serbian origin as that of St. John of Tobolsk, whom he was said to resemble in several respects. From 1907 to 1914 he attended Poltava Military School. He received a degree in law from Kharkov Imperial University in 1918. His family brought him to Belgrade in 1921, where in 1925 he graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in theology.
In 1926 he was tonsured a monk and ordained a hierodeacon by Russian Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky), who gave him the name of St. John after his saintly relative. Later that same year, he was ordained to the priesthood by Russian Bishop Gabriel (Chepur) of Chelyabinsk. For several years afterward he worked as an instructor and tutor in Yugoslavia. He worked as a religious teacher in the Gymnasium of Velika Kikinda between 1925 and 1927. In 1929, Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church appointed him a teacher of the seminary in Bitola. The principal of the seminary was Nikolaj Velimirović.
Ivan Poddubny
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Izet Hdanov
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Yuri Kondratyuk
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Yuri Kordonsky
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Ivane Andronikashvili (agronomist)
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Vyacheslav Ivankov
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Yana Zhdanova
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Ivan Yendogurov
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Ilan Moskovitch
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In 1995 he met the international Israeli director Amos Gitai. Moskovitch worked as his personal assistant in the movie "Dvarim", and since then the two cooperated in more than twenty movies, many of which were feature films for cinema, including "Free Zone", "Promised Land", "Alila", "Carmel", "Kadosh", "Disengagement", "Kippur", "Eden", "Kedma", "Yom Yom" and "Ana Arabia", in which Moskovitch served as the casting director.
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Ivan Olinsky
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Voydan Pop Georgiev – Chernodrinski
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Igor Savitsky
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Eduard Volodarsky
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Yann Candele
In July 2016, he was named to Canada's Olympic team.
His previous international experience include competing as a junior for France in the European championships, and winning the Asian World Cup League 1991-1992. He has also represented France in 2004 at the World Cup Final in Milan, Italy. 
He moved to Canada in 1999, coaching, riding and training at several top stables in Canada. He opened his own training business, Normandy Hills, in 2007. He became a Canadian citizen in 2009, and is currently living in Caledon, Ontario, Canada.
Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski
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Ivan Kandyba
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Valentin Moldavsky
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Yordan Popyordanov
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Ioseb Bardanashvili
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Vassily Ivanchuk
Ivanchuk was born in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine. He won the 1987 European Junior Chess Championship in Groningen and first achieved international notice by winning the 1988 New York Open with 7½/9, ahead of a field of Grandmasters. He tied for first place in the 1988 World Junior Chess Championship at Adelaide, but lost the title on tiebreak to Joël Lautier. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1988, and entered the world top 10 the same year.
Vano Yantbelidze
Ivane "Vano" Yantbelidze (; born on January 14, 1954 in Samtredia, Georgian SSR) is a Soviet and Georgian film, television and stage actor.
Yuri Ilyenko
Illienko was born in Cherkasy in 1936 but during World War II he and his family where evacuated to Siberia while his father was in the Red Army. He graduated high school in Moscow and in 1960 Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1960. From 1960 till 1963 he worked as the director of photography at the Yalta Film Studio. In 1963 Illienko became operator and then director at Dovzhenko Film Studios. His 1965 film "Spring for the thirsty" (scenario by Ivan Drach) and 1968 film "Vechir Na Ivan Kupala" where both banned by the Soviet authorities till 1988. His 1971 film "The White Bird Marked with Black", received the grand prize of the Moscow Film Festival, but at the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine the film was (also) banned and branded "the most harmful movie that has ever been made in Ukraine, especially harmful to young people". His next film, "To dream and to live" (scenario by Ivan Mykolaichuk and himself), was stopped 42 times at various stages of production. Illienko then emigrated to Yugoslavia, where he shot the film "To live in spite of everything". The film won "Silver" at Pula Film Festival and the prize for best actor. In the Ukrainian SSR, the picture was not allowed to be shown. His 1983 film "Lisova pisnia. Mavka" won the FIPRESCI Prize. In 1987 Illienko received the title of People's Artist of Ukraine. His 1990 film "Swan Lake "The Zone"" again won the FIPRESCI Prize. In 1991 and 1992 Illienko was Chairman of the Ukrainian Cinema Foundation. in 1991 he was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize. His 1994 documentary about Serhiy Parajanov received the "Golden Knight" at the film festival Cinema City. In 1996 he became a member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. His 2002 film "A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa" was banned from rental in Russia.
Nikolai Ilyin
Ilyin was born in 1809 in Astrakhan, South Russia. He was educated in a Jesuit college and a military school in St. Petersburg. By 1840 Nikolai Ilyin became an active correspondent for a new magazine called "Maiak (The Lighthouse)". The magazine maintained to a certain degree the mystical tendencies of the famous "Sionsky Vestnik (The Herald of Zion)" published by Aleksandr Labzin (1776-1825), a freemason and mystic. The Herald of Zion was published during the reign of Alexander I, a monarch known for his liberal and lenient politics towards religious free thought and dissent. Nikolai Ilyin read Sionskii Vestnik and the ideas of the universal brotherhood of all men, a mystical core common to all faiths and the focus on personal spirituality as opposed to external forms, appealed to him. Ideas of the German mystic Johann Heinrich Jung also played a very important role in shaping Il’in’s worldview.
Eugene Ivanov (artist)
Russian-Czech painter and book illustrator, Ivanov, was born in 1966 in Tyumen, Siberia, Russia. Since 1998 he has lived and worked in Prague, Czech republic. Ivanov's artworks are founded on dreams and of the unconscious. Ivanov's imagery is suffused with surrealistic poetry. Along with his oil paintings and watercolors, Eugene Ivanov has illustrated over 200 books. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and his works are collected internationally. In his art, the artist unites elements of the landscape realism, motifs of yards and back streets of the Prague´s Old Town, or the classical still-life with modern styles of the beginning of the 20th century - cubism, suprematism and expressionism.
Ivan Poddubny
Poddubny maintained a lifelong professional rivalry with wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko. He died undefeated on 8 August 1949, in the town of Yeysk, in the Kuban region in Southern Russia from a heart attack. Ivan was buried in Yeysk in a park outside of the city. At his burial site was installed an obelisk that used to say "Here lies the Russian bogatyr".
John Ivanko
Early Life and Education
Daniel Yordanov
Yordanov was born in Stanke Dimitrov in 1967. He won a gold medal at the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen partnered with Vasil Radev in the men's double sculls. Radev and Yordanov competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in double sculls where they came eighth.
Sandanski
Sandanski (, formerly known as Sveti Vrach, , until 1947) is a town and a recreation centre in south-western Bulgaria, part of Blagoevgrad Province. Named after revolutionary Yane Sandanski, it is situated in a valley at the foot of Pirin Mountains, along the banks of Sandanska Bistritsa River. Sandanski is about 20 km away from Bulgaria-Greece border and 100 km away from Aegean sea.
Vladimir Vernadsky
Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on in family of the native Kiev residents Russian-Ukrainian economist Ivan Vernadsky and music instructor Hanna Konstantynovych. According to family legend, his father was a descendent of Zaporozhian Cossacks. He had been a professor of political economy in Kiev before moving to Saint Petersburg. His mother was a Russian noblewoman of Ukrainian Cossack descent.
Vernadsky graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1885. As the position of mineralogist in Saint Petersburg State University was vacant, and Vasily Dokuchaev, a soil scientist, and Alexey Pavlov, a geologist, had been teaching Mineralogy for a while, Vernadsky chose to enter Mineralogy. He wrote to his wife Natasha on 20 June 1888 from Switzerland:
While trying to find a topic for his doctorate, he first went to Naples to study under crystallographer Arcangelo Scacchi, who was senile by that time. Scacchi's condition led Vernadsky to go to Germany to study under Paul Groth. Vernadsky learned to use Groth's modern equipment, who had developed a machine to study the optical, thermal, elastic, magnetic and electrical properties of crystals. He also gained access to the physics lab of Leonhard Sohncke (Direktor, Physikalisches Institut der Universität Jena, 1883–1886; Professor der Physik an der Technischen Hochschule München 1886 -1897), who was studying crystallisation during that period.
Ivan Ivankov
Ivankov was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1975. He began gymnastics at the age of 6 and by the time he was 14, was a member of the Soviet national junior team, training at the prestigious Round Lake national gymnastics center.
Sandanski Point
The point is named after the town of Sandanski in southwestern Bulgaria in connection with Yane Sandanski (1872–1915), a leader of the Bulgarian liberation movement in Macedonia.
Ján Podhradský
Ján Podhradský (31 August 1917 – 15 December 1998) is a former Slovak footballer who played in Yugoslavia and Slovakia.
Ivane Andronikashvili
He was born in Qudaghlo in the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti to Prince Malkhaz Andronikashvili and Princess Mariam Bagrationi. (In 1801, the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti became part of the Russian Empire.) His mother, Princess Mariam Bagrationi, was the sister of the last Imeretian king Solomon II. He himself was married to Princess Nino Imeretinsky, granddaughter of King David II of Imereti.
John Vincent Atanasoff
Atanasoff was born on October 4, 1903 in Hamilton, New York to an electrical engineer and a school teacher. Atanasoff's father, Ivan Atanasoff was of Bulgarian origin, born in 1876 in the village of Boyadzhik, close to Yambol, then in Ottoman Empire. While Ivan was still an infant, Ivan's own father was killed by Ottoman soldiers after the Bulgarian April Uprising. In 1889, Ivan Atanasov immigrated to the United States with his uncle. Atanasoff's father later became an electrical engineer, whereas his mother, Iva Lucena Purdy (of mixed French and Irish ancestry), was a teacher of mathematics. Young Atanasoff's ambitions and intellectual pursuits were in part influenced by his parents, whose interests in the natural and applied sciences cultivated in him a sense of critical curiosity and confidence.
Ivan Ganetsky
Ivan Stepanovich Ganetsky (October 8, 1810 – 1887) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He fought in wars in the Caucasus, Poland and against the Ottoman Empire.
Личные воспоминания поручика Ипполита Михайловича Рогге, ординарца генерала Ганецкого, о последнем сражении за Плевну.
Svetoslav Ivanov
Svetoslav Ivanov is born on 30 November 1983 in Sofia. He graduates Journalism at the Sofia University. He specializes in the United Nations in New York and Geneva in 2012.
His career as a journalist starts with the Bulgarian Darik Radio where he is reporter and a presenter. In 2007 he joins the team of bTV. He is author to dozens of documentaries, interviews and reports from the most turbulent areas around the globe. In 2014 he debuts as the presenter to 120 Minutes, the same day his wife gives birth to their daughter. In his studio he often meets worldwide renowned politicians, intellectuals and public figures like Cecilia Attias, Lech Wałęsa, Viktor Yushchenko, Ahmet Davutoğlu, former CIA Director James Hulsy, former KGB agent Mikhail Lyubimov, Ribal al-Assad, Richard Branson, Jordan Belfort and others.
Articles of Svetoslav Ivanov have been posted in some of the most authoritative print issues, one of which the British newspaper "The Independent".
In 2010 together with the camera operator Valentin Vasilev they film the operation of the Israeli special ops against the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla"- a group of six ships situated 80 miles from the coast of Gaza. The reporters are situated on the Greek ship "Sfendoni" that is sailing right after the Turkish "Mavi Marmara" on the board of which eight people find their death.
Svetoslav Ivanov and Valentin Vasilev are held along with 60 other journalists from around the world and are returned to their countries. The incident evokes a major international scandal and parallel investigations from the European Union and the UN. This case has been described in detail in the chapter "Bloody night in the Mediterranean" from the first book of Svetoslav Ivanov- "Where the trees died" (2015) that includes travel history from the hottest points around the globe. The book rates as one of the bestsellers in Bulgaria for 2015.
The second book of Svetoslav Ivanov –"Monsters and Buddhists" (2017) – compiles 75 commentaries of his mini rubric in which in the beginning of every show he gives a commentary on the most popular issues of the week.
Ivan Tsankov
Ivan Tsankov () (born 26 March 1984) is a Bulgarian football player, who last played for Nesebar as a midfielder.
Sandje Ivanchukov
Ethnically Kalmyk Mongol, Ivanchukov's father, Saran Ivanchukov, immigrated to the United States from Bulgaria where he had played on the Bulgarian national team. Born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, Ivanchukov grew up in Howell Township and graduated from Howell High School. He was a 1977 Second Team NSCAA High School All American soccer player.
Volodymyr Dudarenko
Volodymyr Dudarenko was born in the city of Rivne, Ukrainian SSR right after World War II.
Ivane Nanuashvili
Vano Nanuashvili was born on January 1, 1902. In 1912-1920, he studied in Tbilisi 5th General Education School. In 1920-1921 he is a student of the Georgian Military Academy of Tbilisi (Officers School). In March–April 1921, during the Georgian-Russian war, he participated in the battle as a cadet of the Officers’ School. After the occupation of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by the Soviet Russia, Vano Nanuashvili emigrated from his home country together with the Georgian officers.
Jordan Ganchovski
Ganchovski was born on September 25, 1953 in the village of Rogozen, Vratsa district. He graduated from the School of Mechanics in Vratsa. He began publishing in 1977 while he was a student at Voronezh State University. In 1978, he was expelled from the Soviet Union and began his higher education in journalism at Sofia University. He wrote for the criticism department of the newspaper "Literary Front" before working at the Union of Bulgarian Writers until 1985. From 1985 to 1991 he was editor of the publishing house "National Youth". In 1988, he was banned from working with young writers. In 1991, he was removed permanently from the publishing house. The same year, he participated in the founding of the daily publication of the opposition movement, "Support". In 1992, he moved to the U.S. where he established and began publishing the newspaper "EK", and later the newspaper "Zlatorog". He became the chief editor of the magazine "The Chicagoan" and "World Reports" in 2005. He is founder and chairman of the literary circle "Georgi Markov".
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Yevgeny Ivanushkin
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Ivanushkin (; born 26 July 1979 in Krasnoturinsk) is a Russian bandy player who is currently playing for Dynamo Moscow and has been part of the Russia national bandy team in many world championship competitions. In 2017 he became the second player, after Sergey Lomanov Jr., to score 1 000 goals in Russian Bandy Super League.
Ventsislav Aydarski
Ventsislav Aydarski () (born 17 February 1991 in Sandanski) is a Bulgarian swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 1500 metre freestyle, finishing in 28th place overall in the heats, failing to qualify for the final.
Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky
Ivan was educated at St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, and graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1947. While at Yale, he was a member of St. Elmo, a senior secret society.
Volodymyr Ivanenko
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Ivanenko () was founder of the first nongovernmental cable and essential television network in the USSR (1988); initiator and organizer of the first direct satellite broadcast from the territory of the former USSR (1994); founder of the first nongovernmental TV stations in Ukraine: TONIS and TET; television and cinema producer; and public figure.
Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Blanco
Ordovsky was born in Caracas. His father emigrated from Russia after the February Revolution. He was raised in a multi-cultural home; his mother was Spanish and his father Russian. After graduating from Simon Bolivar University in 1984 with a degree in chemical engineering, he formed his company, Rostik International (now the parent company to all his other businesses) to import electronics, photo equipment, and media to Latin America in partnership with such corporations as Kodak and Disney. After helping to produce Russian-Venezuelan film festivals in Moscow and Tashkent, he expanded his business efforts to Russia and was soon operating some 500 Kodak one-hour photo stores.
Yuri Shafranik
Yuri Shafranik (born 1952) is a former Russian energy minister and the chairman of the Soyuzneftegaz company. He was born in Karasul village of Ishimskiy district in Tyumen Oblast. In 1974, he graduated from the Tyumen Industrial Institute. Since 1974 he worked in different oil and gas companies such as Nizhnevartovskneftegaz Urievneft and Langepasneftegaz, in later as Director General. In April 1990, he was elected a chairman of Tyumen Oblast's Soviet of Peoples' Deputies and in September 1991, he was appointed a Head of the Tyumen Oblast Administration.
Ivan Shadr
Ivan Shadr (), pseudonym of Ivan Dmitriyevich Ivanov (; , Shadrinsk, now Kurgan Oblast — 3 April 1941, Moscow) was a Russian/Soviet sculptor and medalist who took his pseudonym after his hometown of Shadrinsk.
Ivan Savvidis
Savvidis was born in Santa Gruzino, Tsalka District, Georgia. After serving in the Soviet Army, Savvidis was educated at the Rostov State University of Economics in Rostov-on-Don. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Savvidis was employed in various positions at the Don State Tobacco Factory. In 1992, the tobacco factory was privatised and renamed CJSC Donskoy Tabak; in the following year Savvidis was appointed as its General Director. Savvidis and his wife, Kyriaki Savvidi, are now formally the majority shareholders of Donskoy Tabak, the largest Russian tobacco company.
Yuri Sidorenko
Yuri Sydorenko was born on August 13, 1961 in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast in a family of doctors. During his lifetime he graduated the Kiev Technological Institute of Food Technologies as a processing engineer and the Kiev National Economy Institute of Korotchenko as an engineering economist. In 1983–85 Sydorenko served in the Soviet Army as part of signal communication forces.
Vasily Zhdanov
Zhdanov was born in Russia, but in 1987 graduated from the University of Physical Education in Kiyv (Kharkiv branch), Ukraine, and since the 1980s took various sport and business related positions in Kharkiv and Kiyv. Between 1994 and 1996 he was the head coach of the Ukrainian road racing team, then until 2005 he was a personal assistant of Oleg Blokhin in Ukraine's parliament matters. Between 2005 and 2010 he was responsible for sport and tourism in the city administration of Kharkiv. Since 2011 he is an assistant manager of the Italian racing team Lampre-Merida.
Yan Kaminsky
Yan Bronislavovich Kaminsky (born July 28, 1971 in Penza, Soviet Union) is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League and National Hockey League. He played for HC Dynamo Moscow, Winnipeg Jets, and New York Islanders. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993. He currently resides in Kennesaw, Georgia where he coaches the Atlanta Phoenix hockey team.
Vasil Adzhalarski
Vasil Stoyanov was born in 1880 in the village of Adzhalari, in the Sanjak of Üsküp of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Republic of Macedonia). He received his nickname after this village, which is now known as Miladinovtsi. In 1901 he moved with his family in Skopje. He entered IMARO and realized a series of tasks for the Organization – he carried post, hid and purchased weapons, but he was arrested and spent two years in the prison Kurshumli Han. He got released after an amnesty. In 1903 he became an illegal freedom fighter and at first he was an assistant of the band leader Sande Cholaka in Kumanovo. Later, he entered the revolutionary band of Bobi Stoichev and after that he himself became a leader, in the regions of Skopska Crna Gora and Skopska Blatiya, under the supervision of Dame Martinov. Adzhalarski distinguished himself from the other freedom fighters with the assassination of several Muslim beys who were suppressing the local Bulgarian inhabitants.
Yane Sandanski
The "Centralists" organised several unsuccessful assassination attempts against Sandanski. They came closest to achieving their goal in Thessaloniki, where Tane Nikolov managed to kill two other "Federalists" and heavily wounded Sandanski. Eventually, Sandanski was killed near the Rozhen Monastery on April 22, 1915, while travelling from Melnik to Nevrokop, by local IMARO activists.
Aaron Bodansky
Bodansky was born in Russia in 1887 and emigrated to the United States in 1904, followed in the next two years by his parents and siblings. He studied biochemistry at Cornell University, earning a Ph.D. in 1921. He worked in the laboratory division of the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City from 1928 to 1954. His area of special interest was calcium metabolism. He published several papers in this field, including the work on measurement of phosphatase activity. He died in 1960 from a heart attack. Two brothers, Meyer Bodansky (1896-1941) and Oscar Bodansky (1901-1977) were themselves prominent biochemists, often leading to confusion in the attribution of their individual accomplishments.
Ivan Doan
Doan was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a Ukrainian mother and Vietnamese father. In 2003 he got accepted to the acting program of Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Upon graduation in 2007, he was invited to work in Moscow by theater director Roman Viktyuk. Doan speaks fluent English, French, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. He is also lifelong practitioner of martial arts. Currently, he resides in Berlin. at the Internet Movie Database
Sandanski Point
Sandanski Point (Nos Sandanski \'nos san-'dan-ski\) is the point forming the north side of the entrance to Stoyanov Cove on the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, projecting 600 m into Hero Bay and formed by an offshoot of Oryahovo Heights.
Yuriy Yekhanurov
Yekhanurov was born in the village Belkachi in the far-north Yakut ASSR, which is currently the Sakha Republic within the Russian Federation. His father, Ivan Mikhailvich Yekhanurov is an ethnic Buryat, while his mother, Galina Ivanovna is an ethnic Ukrainian. In 1955 - 1963 Yuriy Yekhanurov attended a school in village Buy, Bichursky District, Buryatia. In 1963 he moved to Kiev, Ukraine, where he has spent most of his life and career. He holds a PhD-equivalent degree in Economics, is married, and has one son.
Irina Zhdanovich
Zhdanovich was born on September 14, 1906 in Minsk, Russian Empire; now modern-day Belarus. She was married to Alexei Platonov.
Zhdanovich was a member of the CPSU from 1947 to 1991. She was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR in its second and fourth convocations.
Nina Ananiashvili
"Nina Gedevanovna Ananiashvili"' was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. Her father, Gedevan, and two older brothers, George and Levan, were all geologists; her mother, Lia Gogolashvili, a philologist. She was a sickly child and at the age of 4, her parents started her ice skating in an effort to improve her health. At 10, she became champion in her age group in Georgia.
Ivan Garvanov
In 1904 he was amnestied by the authorities and settled in Sofia where he worked as a teacher. The failure of the uprising reignited the rivalries between the varying factions of the Macedonian revolutionary movement. The left-wing faction opposed Bulgarian nationalism but the Centralist's faction of the IMARO, drifted more and more towards it. The years 1905-1907 saw the slow split between the two factions. Finally, the leaders of the Centralist's were sentenced to death from the leftists. Garvanov, along with Boris Sarafov was killed by Todor Panitsa, close to the left wing leader of IMARO Yane Sandanski, in 1907. Garvanov was one of the staunchest opponents of Sandanski in the squabbles dividing the IMARO after 1903. The assassination of Sarafov and Garvanov, turned the IMARO factions into a war of extermination that lasted for decades.
Mile Pop Yordanov
Mile Pop Yordanov (Bulgarian: Миле Попйорданов Macedonian language: Миле Поп Јорданов) (1877-1901), born Milan Poyordanov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He was born in Veles, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Republic of Macedonia) in 1877. His younger brother, Yordan Popyordanov, was one of the "Gemidzhii" that launched the Thessaloniki bombings of 1903. Mile Pop Yordanov studied in a Bulgarian Exarchate's high school in the town of Bitola before becoming an active member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. In 1901, he was ambushed and surrounded by enemy soldiers. In order not to be caught alive, he killed himself. There is a folk song about Pop Jordanov ('Bolen mi lezhi Mile Pop Yordanov').
Ioan (Bodnarchuk)
Metropolitan Ioann (secular name Vasyl Mykolayovych Bodnarchuk, , ; 12 April 1927 – 9 November 1994) was an Orthodox hierarch born in the Ternopil area of Western Ukraine, which at that time was a territory of Poland. During his life he was successively bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church (1977–1989), in the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1989–1992) and in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate (1992–1994).
Yane Sandanski
During the first days of Young Turk Revolution, the collaboration of the Macedonian leftists with the Ottoman activists was stated in a special "Manifesto to all the nationalities of the Empire". The loyalty to the Empire declared by Sandanski deliberately blurred the distinction between Macedonian and Ottoman political agenda. This ideological transition was quite smooth as long as the rhetoric of Macedonian autonomist supra-nationalism was already quite close to the Ottomanist idea of the so-called "unity of the elements". During the honeymoon of Serres revolutionaries and Ottoman authorities, it was the internationalist ideas of Bulgarian socialist activists that left their stamp on Sandanski's agenda: what was seen as national interests had to be subdued to the pan-Ottoman ones in order to achieve a "supra-national union" of all the nationalities within a reformed Empire. After Bulgaria lost the Balkan Wars and as result most of Macedonia was ceded to Greece and Serbia, Sandanski attempted to organize the assassination of Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I, but it failed.
Medical School SOU Jane Sandanski – Štip
Medical School "Jane Sandanski" (in Macedonian: "Медицинско училиште СОУ "Јане Сандански"", is a medical secondary school in Štip, Macedonia. It was established in 1956 and named after the revolutionary Jane Sandanski. The school educate students from year 1 to year 4 (15–18 years students).
Zvezdelina Stankova
Stankova was born in Ruse, Bulgaria. She began attending the Ruse math circle as a fifth grader in Bulgaria, the same year she learned to solve the Rubik's Cube and began winning regional mathematics competitions. She later wrote of this experience that "if I was not a member of Ruse SMC I would not be able to make such profound achievements in mathematics". She became a student at an elite English-language high school, and competed on the Bulgarian team in the International Mathematical Olympiads in 1987 and 1988, earning silver medals both times. She entered Sofia University but in 1989, as the Iron Curtain was falling, became one of 15 Bulgarian students selected to travel to the US to complete their studies.
Stanislav Ivanov (footballer, born 1999)
Born in Gabrovo, Ivanov began his football career playing for his hometown club. And he loved to go to Gabrovo club Allegro! Yantra at the age of six. In 2012, he joined Levski Sofia's youth academy.
Stanislav Ioudenitch
Stanislav Ioudenitch (born December 5, 1971) is a Uzbekistani-born American pianist, known for winning the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001, as well as the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music. He has also won top prizes at the Busoni, Kapell, and Maria Callas Competitions, as well as at the 1998 Palm Beach Invitational and the 2000 New Orleans International. His win at the Van Cliburn Competition led to a recital debut at the Aspen Music Festival and a European tour, highlighted by appearances at summer festivals in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
Konstantin Rudanovsky
Konstantin Vasilyevich Rudanovsky (May 12, 1834 - 1899) was a general who served Russian Emperor Nicholas I in Paris. He graduated first Cadet Corpsand from The Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in Saint Petersburg. Konstantin was a passionate collector and always hunted for masterpieces in France and Italy in order to re-sell it in Russia. On one occasion he even sold a large portrait of Nicholas I to the tsar himself. A few years later, Konstantin met Charles de Morny, the ambassador of France to Russia. Morny was married to Sophia Trubetskaya (the illegitimate daughter of Tsar Nicholas I). The couple became friends with Konstantin and from time to time they bought works of art and jewelry from him.He and Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya often discussed the idea of creating a cultural centre, or a gallery where Konstantin would be able to exhibit his art collections. One day Sophia said: "I want to build an island of Russian culture in France". This idea was very important to Konstantin and he suggested Monry to make a magnificent gift to his wife Sophia for a birthday. Monry built the seaside town of Deauville to celebrate their love. Deauville in fact became for many years the epicenter for Russian culture in France. In 1912 Deauville witnessed the golden age of the Diaghilev Ballet Company.
Eugen Sandow
Sandow was born to a Jewish family in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad), on 2 April 1867. His father was a German and his mother was of Russian descent. Although his parents were born Jewish, the family were Lutherans and wanted him to become a Lutheran minister. He left Prussia in 1885 to avoid military service and traveled throughout Europe, becoming a circus athlete and adopting Eugen Sandow as his stage name, adapting and Germanizing his Russian mother's maiden name, Sandov.
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Ivan Petrovich Ivanov-Vano (; , Moscow – 25 March 1987, Moscow), born Ivanov, was a Soviet animation director, animator, screenwriter, educator, professor at VGIK. One of the pioneers of the Soviet animation school, he is sometimes called the "Patriarch of Soviet animation". He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1985).
Yane Sandanski
Sandanski's legacy remains disputed among Bulgarian and Macedonian historiography today. Macedonian historians refers to him in an attempt to demonstrate the existence of Macedonian nationalism or at least "proto-nationalism" within a part of the local revolutionary movement at his time. Despite the allegedly "anti-Bulgarian" "autonomism" and "federalism" of Sandanski, it is unlikely he had developed Macedonian national identity in a narrow sensе, or he regarded the Bulgarian Exarchists in Ottoman Macedonia as a separate nation from Bulgarians. Contrary to the assertions of Skopje, his "separatism" represented a supranational project, not national. More, the compatriots, who convinced Sandanski to accept such leftist ideas, were Bulgarian socialists, most of whom were non-Macedonian in origin. The designation "Macedonian" then was an umbrella term covering different nationalities in the area and when applied to the local Slavs, it denoted mainly the regional Bulgarian community. However, contrary to Bulgarian assertions, his ideas of a separate Macedonian political entity, have stimulated the subsequent development of Macedonian nationalism.
Ilia Zdanevich
He was born in Tbilisi to a Polish father, Michał Zdaniewicz, who taught French in a gymnasium and a Georgian mother, Valentina Gamkrelidze, who was a pianist and student of Tchaikovsky. (His older brother Kiril also became a well-known artist.) He studied in the Faculty of Law of Saint Petersburg State University. In 1912 he and his brother, along with their friend Mikhail Le-Dantyu, became enthusiastic about the Tbilisi painter Niko Pirosmanashvili; Ilya's article about him, "Khudozhnik-samorodok" ("A natural-born artist"), his first publication, appeared in the February 13, 1913, issue of "Zakavkazskaia Rech"'. Later in 1913 he published a monograph "Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov" under the pseudonym Eli Eganbyuri (). In June 1914 the journal "Vostok" published his article "Niko Pirosmanashvili," in which he mythologized the biography of the older artist, linking him with the Silver Age and the Russian avant-garde. He became involved with the new Futurist movement, participating in their discussions and writing about them and Marinetti in the Russian press, and was drawn to other avant-garde movements as well, such as Zaum and dadaism.