Famous People with Name Georgy

Georgy Erikhovich Langemak            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Erikhovich Langemak: was a Soviet rocket designer of German/Swiss background. Beginning in 1928, he worked at the Soviet Gas Dynamics Laboratory along with several other notable Soviet rocket scientists, and they developed rocket projectiles that used smokeless powder.

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov: was a Soviet military commander who, in the course of World War II, led the Red Army to liberate the Soviet Union from the Axis Powers' occupation, to advance through much of Eastern Europe, and to conquer Germany's capital, Berlin. He is one of the most

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov: was a Russian and Soviet neoromantic composer. Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was born in 1915 in the town of Fatezh in the Kursk guberniya of the Russian Empire. His father, Vasily Sviridov, a sympathizer of the Bolshevik cause during the Russian Civil War

Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov: was a Soviet politician and political scientist. He was one of the half-dozen aides closest to Mikhail Gorbachev both while he was Soviet leader and after his fall from power at the collapse of the Soviet Union. Shakhnazarov was an early advocate of refor

Georgy Lisitsin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Georgy Lisitsin: was a Russian chess master.He won thrice Leningrad City Chess Championship in 1933/34 (joint), 1939 and 1947 (joint). He participated many times in USSR Chess Championship. His best result was in 1933 when he shared 3rd (Mikhail Botvinnik won). He also played in international tournaments, finishing 15th at Moscow 1935 (Botvinnik and Salo Flohr won), and took 2nd at Helsinki 1946 (Viacheslav Ragozin won).