List of Famous people named Yakov

Similar names: Yaakov, Iakov. Here are some famous Yakovs:

Yakov Dzhugashvili

First Name Yakov
Born on March 18, 1907
Died on April 14, 1943 (aged 36)

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was the eldest of Joseph Stalin's three children, the son of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died 9 months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family. In 1921, when Dzhugashvili had reached the age of fourteen, he was brought to Moscow, where his father had become a leading figure in the Bolshevik government who eventually became head of the Soviet Union. Disregarded by Stalin, Dzhugashvili was a shy, quiet child who appeared quite unhappy and tried to commit suicide several times as a youth. Married twice, Dzhugashvili had three children, two of whom reached adulthood.

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Yakov Sverdlov

First Name Yakov
Born on June 3, 1885
Died on March 16, 1919 (aged 33)

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov, was a Bolshevik party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919. He is sometimes regarded as the first head of state of the Soviet Union although it was not established until 1922, three years after his death.

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Yakov Yurovsky

Янкель Хаимович Юровский
First Name Yakov
Born on June 7, 1878
Died on August 2, 1938 (aged 60)

Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky was a Russian Old Bolshevik and a Soviet Revolutionary. He was best known as the chief executioner of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family, and four retainers on the night of 17 July 1918.

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Yakov Ganetsky

First Name Yakov
Born on March 15, 1879
Died on November 26, 1937 (aged 58)

Yakov Hanecki, real name Jakub Fürstenberg (Fuerstenberg) also known as Kuba was a prominent Polish communist and close associate of Vladimir Lenin, famous as one of the financial wizards who arranged, through his close working relationship with Alexander Parvus, the secret German funding that helped the Bolsheviks seize power in the October Revolution of 1917 - after which he served as a middle ranking Soviet official until his arrest.

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Yakov Brand

First Name Yakov
Born on May 20, 1955
Died on June 12, 2018 (aged 63)

Yakov Beniaminovich Brand was a Russian cardiac surgeon and television presenter.

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Yakov Blumkin

First Name Yakov
Born on March 12, 1900
Died on November 3, 1929 (aged 29)
Spy

Yakov Grigoryevich Blumkin was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, a Bolshevik and an agent of the Cheka and the State Political Directorate (GPU).

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Yakov Springer

First Name Yakov
Born on June 10, 1921
Died on September 6, 1972 (aged 51)

Yakov Springer was a wrestler and a weightlifting coach and judge, but is best known as one of the victims of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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Yakov Slashchov

First Name Yakov
Born on January 10, 1886
Died on January 11, 1929 (aged 43)
Born in Russia

Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchov (Яков Александрович Слащёв; was a leading commander of Baron Wrangel's Crimean army who reconciled to the Soviets and returned from Constantinople to Moscow in 1921. He was killed in his Moscow apartment by a Jew named Lazar Kalenberg, apparently in revenge for the execution of his brother.

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Yakov Agranov

יענקל סמוילוביץ' סורנסון
First Name Yakov
Born on October 12, 1893
Died on August 1, 1938 (aged 44)

Yakov Saulovich Agranov was the first chief of Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda. He is known as one of main organizers of Soviet political repressions and Stalinist show trials in 1920s and 1930s. He fabricated the "Tagantsev conspiracy" case and Moscow trials, including Trial of the Twenty One and Industrial Party Trial, as well as mass arrests and executions in Saint Petersburg during Stalin's Great Purge.

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Yakov Kreizer

First Name Yakov
Died on November 29, 1969

Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer was a Soviet field commander.

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