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Russian secular Jews

  • Leon TrotskyLev Davidovich Bronstein was born on the 7th of November 1879 into a wealthy but illiterate Jewish farming family in Yanovka, a village in the Kherson…
  • Lev LandauLev Davidovich Landau was born on the 22nd of January 1908 in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. His father worked as an engineer for the local oil…
  • Sergei EisensteinSergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was born on the 11th of February 1898 in Riga, within the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.
  • Élie MetchnikoffIlya Ilyich Mechnikoff entered the world on the 15th of May 1845 in a village within the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.
  • Anton RubinsteinAnton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in the village of Vikhvatinets, located within the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire.