Famous People with Name Stepan

Stepan Osipovich Makarov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Stepan Osipovich Makarov: was a famous Russian vice-admiral, a highly accomplished and decorated commander of the Imperial Russian Navy, and a distinguished oceanographer, awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books.

Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov: was a Russian explorer and geographer who gave the first full description of Kamchatka in the early eighteenth century. He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1750. The Krasheninnikov Volcano on Kamchatka is named in his honor.

Stepan Gevorgi Shahumyan            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Stepan Gevorgi Shahumyan: was a Bolshevist Russian communist politician and revolutionary active throughout the Caucasus.[1] Shahumyan was an ethnic Armenian and his role as a leader of the Russian revolution in the Caucasus earned him the nickname of the "Caucasian Lenin", a refe

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera: was a Ukrainian nationalist leader who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). He was born in the village of Uhryniv Staryi, in the Kalush District in Gali?ia (Stanyslaviv Oblast), which at that time was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. His father, Andriy Bandera, was a Ukrainian priest of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic rite in Uhryniv Staryi. His mother, Myroslava Bandera, was from an old clerical family, being the daughter of a Greek-Catholic priest in Uhryniv Staryi.

Stepan Popel            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Stepan Popel: was a multiple chess champion of Lviv, Paris and eventually, of the Ukrainians in North America (USA and Canada). He was born in Komarniki, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) and died December 1987 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA). Stepan Popel was the nephew of an early master, Ignatz von Popiel (1863-1941), and took a liking to chess at an early age – he played in his first tournament at age 12.