* Yakov Abramovich Chubin ( October 1937 – November 1939 )

* Yakov Popok

* Yakov Popok ( August 1930-15 April 1937 )

General Wrangel awarded the last victory-title in Russia ( Krymsky-" Crimean ") unofficially after the abolition of the monarchy: to the White Lieutenant-General Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchyov ( Яков Слащёв ) in August 1920 for his defence of the Crimea in 1919-1920.

On August 4, 1922, however, as he allowed his troops to celebrate the Idi Qurbon holiday and kept a guard of 30 men at his headquarters near the village of Ab-i-Derya near Dushanbe, the Red Army Bashkir cavalry brigade under the command of Yakov Melkumov ( Agop Melkumian ) launched a surprise attack.

The Secretariat was established by the Central Committee on 6 August 1917 and was initially composed of Felix Dzerzhinsky, Matvei Muranov and Yakov Sverdlov as full members and Adolph Joffe and Elena Stasova as candidate members ( or alternates ).

Lieutenant General Dmitri I. Ryabyshev took over on 30 August 1941 and held command until 5 October, when Colonel General Yakov Cherevichenko took command, until December 1941.

Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and the senior military officers Iona Yakir, Ieronim Uborevich, Robert Eideman, August Kork, Vitovt Putna, Boris Feldman and Vitaly Primakov ( as well as Yakov Gamarnik, who committed suicide before the investigations began ) were accused of anti-Soviet conspiracy and sentenced to death ; they were executed on the night of June 11 – 12, 1937, immediately after the verdict delivered by a Special Session ( специальное судебное присутствие ) of the Supreme Court of the USSR.

Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky (; – 2 August 1938 ) was an Old Bolshevik best known as the chief executioner of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family, and four retainers on the night of 16 / 17 July 1918.

According to Pavel Sudoplatov, " This job in 1930 was done by Yakov Serebryansky, assisted by his wife and an agent in the French police.

* 1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, Soviet soldier, the oldest child of Joseph Stalin ( b. 1907 )

* 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich, Russian physicist ( b. 1914 )

* 1951 – Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian

* 1914 – Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich, Russian physicist ( d. 1987 )

* Yakov Kulnev ( 1763 – 1812 )-major-general, hero of the Patriotic war with Napoleon

* Yakov Alksnis ( 1931 – 1937 )

* Lieutenant General Yakov Smushkevich ( 1939 – 1940 )

* November 23 – During the Great Purge, Soviet Air Force commander-in-chief Comandarm Yakov Alksnis is arrested.

Scientists and explorers include, doctors N. Bogoraz and S. Fedosov, scientists Dmitri Mendeleev, A. S. Popov, L. P. Pavlov, George Sedov the Arctic Sea explorer, Yakov Frenkel ( 1894 – 1952 ) a solid-state physicist, Svyatoslav Fyodorov ( 1927 – 2000 ), ophthalmologist, Sabina Spielrein ( 1885 – 1942 ), psychoanalyst.

* Sergei Lvovich Sobolev., in: Russian Mathematicians in the 20th Century ( Yakov Sinai, editor ), pp. 381 – 382.

* Yakov Pavlov – commanded the defenders of the building named after him during the Battle of Stalingrad.

* Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich: 2nd degree, physics – for works on combustion and detonation

* Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich ( Яков Борисович Зельдович ): 1st degree, physics – for special works ( actually, for nuclear technology )

* Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich: 1st degree, physics – for special works

* Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich: 1st degree, physics – for special works

* Yakov – a hired workman.

* Yakov Kreizberg ( 1994 – 2001 )

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov (); known under pseudonyms " Andrei ", " Mikhalych ", " Max ", " Smirnov ", " Permyakov " – 16 March 1919 ) was a Bolshevik party leader and president of the Russian Soviet Republic.

* July 29 – Former Soviet Air Force commander-in-chief Yakov Alksnis is executed, a victim of the Great Purge.

* October 28 – General Yakov Smushkevich, commander of the Soviet Air Force from 1939 to 1940 who had overseen its poor performance during the Winter War with Finland, is executed.

* December 2 – Yakov Borisovich Zel ' dovich ( b. 1914 ), Belarusian astrophysicist.

On July 6, 1918, at about 2: 15 PM two chekists, who were also members of Left SR party, Yakov Blumkin, and N. A.

Yakov Khristoforovich Peters (,, ) ( — 25 April 1938 ) was a Latvian Communist revolutionary, Soviet politician, chekist, and terrorist.

Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial ( sometimes translated as the " Soviet Cenotaph "), built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 50, 000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle in Berlin in April – May 1945.

Yakov Naumovich Reizen was born April 24, 1889, in Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire, now Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, to a Jewish family.

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili (, ) ( 18 March 1907 – 14 April 1943 ) was one of Joseph Stalin's three children ( along with Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Dzhugashvili ).

* Yakov Drobnis ( 1890 – 1937 ).

* Yakov Surits ( 1934 – 1937 )

* BBC Profile: Roman Abramovich ( 31 August 2012 )

On 31 August 2012, the High Court found for Abramovich.

Vsevolod Mikhaylovich Abramovich () ( August 11, 1890-April 24, 1913 ) was a pioneering aviator.

Abramovich was born on August 11, 1890 in Odessa, a grandson of the Yiddish writer Mendele Mocher Sforim.

In 2005, he was included in the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated wealth of £ 4, 375m, but was not listed in 2006 ; however, according to an August 2006 article in the New York Times, the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti estimated Deripaska's total wealth at US $ 14 billion, which, if true, would either have made him Russia's richest man or possibly tied for the spot with Roman Abramovich.

* Article about Abramovich buying property on the road, FindaProperty, 17 August 2011

Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky () ( 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995 ) was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title.