List: People from Vinnytsia Oblast

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•  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky, also known as T. G. Dobzhansky, and sometimes Anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky (Ukrainian — Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; January 24, 1900 - December 18, 1975) was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis. Dobzhansky was born in Ukraine (then part of Imperial Russia) and emigrated to the United States in 1927.

  

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•  Jan Potocki

  Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki (March 8, 1761 – December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army captain of engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and author whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland. Outside Poland he is known chiefly for his novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

  

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•  Nathan of Breslov

  Nathan of Breslov (January 22, 1780 – December 20, 1844), also known as Reb Noson, born Nathan Sternhartz, was the chief disciple and scribe of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty. Reb Noson is credited with preserving, promoting and expanding the Breslov movement after the Rebbe's death. Rebbe Nachman himself said, "Were it not for Reb Noson, not a page of my writings would have remained."

  

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•  Yuri Levada

  Yuri Alexandrovich Levada was a well known Russian sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the Levada Center.

  

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•  Walery Sławek

  Walery Sławek was a Polish politician who in the early 1930s served three times as Prime Minister of Poland. He was one of the closest aides of Polish leader, Józef Piłsudski.

  

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•  Volodymyr Antonovych

  Volodymyr Antonovych, was a prominent Ukrainian historian and one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national awakening in the Russian Empire. As a historian, Antonovych, who was longtime Professor of History at the University of Kiev, represented a populist approach to Ukrainian history.

  

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•  Ivan Bohun

  Ivan Bohun (died 1664) was a Ukrainian Cossack colonel. Close associate and friend of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, he opposed both the pacts with Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and with Tsardom of Russia.

  

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•  Piotr Stolyarsky

  Piotr Solomonovich Stoliarsky, USSR was a Soviet violinist and teacher, honored as "the People's Artist of UkSSR (Ukrainian SSR) (1939). Member of CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) from 1939. Stolyarsky first studied with his father, then with S. Barcewitcz in Warsaw, and subsequently with Emil Młynarski and Josef Karbulka in Odessa. In 1893 graduated from Odessa music school. In 1893-1919 became a member of the Odessa Opera House orchestra.

  

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•  Mordechai Namir

  Mordechai Namir was an Israeli politician, who served as the mayor of Tel Aviv, a Knesset member and government minister, as well as being one of the heads of the Labour Zionist movement.

  

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•  Valeriy Shmarov

  Valeriy Shmarov (Ukrainian: Валерій Миколайович Шмаров, is a Ukrainian politician. From October 10, 1994 to July 8, 1996 was the third Minister of Defence of Ukraine.

  

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