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unusual facts about Russian American



Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington is a very diverse neighborhood, containing Ukrainian, South Asian (Bangladeshi and Pakistani), Chinese, Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic, Irish, Polish, Italian, Albanian, Russian, Latino, Mexican, Australian and Caribbean communities.

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (Russian Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; January 21, 1889, Turja north of Syktyvkar, Yarensk uyezd, Vologda Governorate (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi), Russian Empire – February 11, 1968, Winchester, Massachusetts) was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi (Finno-Ugric region of Russia).


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Ary Stillman

Ary Stillman (February 13, 1891 - January 1967) was a representational and abstract Russian-American painter born in Hresk near Slutsk, Belarus.

Azamat Kuliev

His elder brother, Alim Kouliev, is a Russian-American actor living and working in Hollywood.

Center on Global Interests

Nikolai Zlobin, CGI's Founder and President, is a well-known Russian-American political expert, author and journalist.

Chirikof Island

Alaska Commercial Company acquired the assets of the Russian-American Company in 1867 when Russia sold the territory to America.

Demid Ilyich Kulikalov

He served in the Russian-American Company for several decades, led early expeditions into what is now Alaska, administered RAC interests in the Pribilof Islands, and headed the Russian-American Company's Atka station.

Department of Alaska

That afternoon, 250 American soldiers, 80 Russian soldiers, Russian-American Company Chief Manager Prince Maksutov and his wife, and a group of locals assembled at the flagstaff in front of the governor's residence (on what has come to be known as "Baranof (Baronov) Castle Hill" to witness the flag of Russia being lowered and the U.S. flag being raised in its place.

Deyneka

Peter Deyneka (1897-1987), Russian-American evangelist and a missionary to the Russian diaspora

Great Baikal Trail

At the same time, two organizations – the Federation of Sports Tourism and Mountaineering of the Republic of Buryatia and Earth Island Institute's Baikal Watch in San Francisco, USA – were awarded a joint grant from the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation for the an exchange program to share experience in trail construction.

Horowitzian

Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989), Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist

Karpovich

Michael Karpovich (1888–1959), Russian-American historian of Russia

Kotov

Nina Kotova (b. 1969), a Russian American cellist and composer

Lichine

Alexis Lichine, Russian/American wine writer, vintner and négociant

Minorsky

Nicolas Minorsky (1885 – 1970), a Russian American control theory mathematician and applied scientist.

Nikolay Sokolov

Nikolai Sokoloff (1886-1965), Russian-American conductor and violinist

Paul M. Doty

After retirement he continued to work on Russian-American scientific relations and was board member of George Soros' International Science Foundation that provided support to Russian scientists in the 1990s.

Tarnovsky

Sergei Tarnowsky (Russian: Сергей Тарновский; 1882–1976), Russian-American pianist

Tsygankov

Andrei Tsygankov, Russian-American international relations scholar and academic

Two Hundred Years Together

Another critical analysis was published by the Russian-American historian Semyon Reznik.

Wiegmann

Paul Wiegmann (born 1952), a Russian-American physicist and university professor

Yakovlevian torque

It is named for Paul Ivan Yakovlev (1894–1983), a Russian-American Neuroanatomist from Harvard Medical School.

Yevgeny Lazarev

Yevgeni Lazarev (Yevgeni Nikolayevich Lazarev) (b. 1937), Russian-American film actor