* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* 1948 – Lev Zeleny, Russian physicist

Conversely, in more recent times, Russian existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov viewed Job as the embodiment of the battle between reason ( which offers general and seemingly comforting explanations for complex events ) and faith in a personal god, and one man's desperate cry for him.

Russian physicist Lev Landau used the idea for the Fermi liquid theory wherein low energy properties of interacting fermion systems were given in terms of what are now known as Landau-quasiparticles.

Sometime around 1918, Russian director Lev Kuleshov did an experiment that proves this point.

Early Russian filmmakers such as Lev Kuleshov further explored and theorized about editing and its ideological nature.

* 1866 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher ( d. 1938 )

As far as posterior individualist anarchists, Jason McQuinn for some time used the pseudonym Lev Chernyi in honor of the Russian individualist anarchist of the same name while Feral Faun has quoted Italian individualist anarchist Renzo Novatore and has translated both Novatore.

* 1905 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician ( d. 1938 )

* Lev Kornilov ( b. 1984 ), Russian professional footballer

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein () on 7 November 1879, in Yanovka () or Yanivka (), in the Kherson guberniya of the Russian Empire ( today's Bereslavka (; ) in the Bobrynets Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine ), a small village from the nearest post office.

Lev Sergeyevich Termen ; ) ( – 3 November 1993 ( Léon Theremin in America ) was a Russian and Soviet inventor.

Léon Theremin was born Lev Sergeyevich Termen in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1896 into a family of French and German ancestry.

After Lenin ’ s death ( 21 January 1924 ), Trotsky ideologically battled the influence of Stalin, who formed ruling blocs within the Russian Communist Party ( with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, then with Nikolai Bukharin, and then by himself ) and so determined soviet government policy from 1924 onwards.

* 1938 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher ( b. 1866 )

* 1896 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist ( d. 1934 )

* 1907 – Lev Oborin, Russian pianist ( d. 1974 )

* 1908 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1988 )

The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeevich Termen ( known in the West as Léon Theremin ) in October 1920 after the outbreak of the Russian civil war.

* January 22 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1968 )

* September 3 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1988 )

* August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet and Russian physicist

* November 17 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist ( d. 1934 )

* June 11 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist ( b. 1896 )

Following Lev Vygotsky the Russian theoretician of socio-cultural development, Bruner proposed that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition in general and language in particular.

Nardi's self-described theoretical orientation is " activity theory ", a philosophical framework developed by the Russian psychologists Vygotsky, Luria, Leont ' ev, and their students.

The first is associated with the Moscow Institute of Psychology and in particular the " troika " of young Russian researchers, Vygotsky, Leont ' ev, and Luria.

Similar attacks led to a humorous Russian saying, " I haven't read Pasternak, but I condemn him ".

During this time he taught himself the Portuguese language to read the poet Camões in the original ; as insufficient Russian-speaking officers were available at the War Office, his knowledge of the Russian language and textual analysis skills were used to translate a Russian parachute training manual-a task he completed after 11pm on top of his normal duties, deducing the meaning of many technical terms from the context ; he was convinced that the Soviet Union must eventually enter the war on the Allied side.

David O. Selznick dearly wanted to film David Copperfield, as his Russian father Lewis J. Selznick had learned the English language through it, and read it to his sons every night.

If read as Cyrillic, the name ОСРВ is an abbreviation for ' Операционная Система Реального Времени ' — the Russian for ' Real-time Operating System '.

From an early age James read the classics of English, American, French and German literature, and Russian classics in translation.

From an early age James read, criticised, and learned from the classics of English, American, French, Italian, German and ( in translation ) Russian literature.

The Imperial eagle carried a scroll which dipped into the blue stripe, also for more visibility, which read, in abbreviated form " Russian American Company's ".

James Van Stone, an anthropologist who traveled to Saint Petersburg and read diaries of the Russian explorers from 1867, noted that explorers traveled to Aleknagik lake ( in a spelling that is Russian but sounds out to Aleknagik ).

: In a statement read on Iraqi state television, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the hostage-taking would eventually benefit the United States and Israel in undermining Islam: " It's not wise for the Chechens to lose the sympathy of Russia and the Russian people.

He is also studying Russian in order to read Russian poetry better in the original.

* What's Gained in Translation An article by Douglas Hofstadter on the book, which explains how he can judge the relative worth of different translations of Onegin without being able to read Russian

The law is an attempt to amend a situation where up to a third of the ethnic Abkhaz population are no longer capable of speaking their own language, and even more are unable to read or write it ; instead, Russian is the language most commonly used in public life at present.

For example, in the Russian tradition, the " all-night vigil " is served in every church on Saturday nights and the eves of feast days ( all though it may be abridged to be as short as two hours ) while elsewhere, it is usual to have matins on the morning of the feast ; however, in the latter instance, vespers and matins are rather less abridged but the Divine Liturgy commences at the end of matins and the hours are not read, as was the case in the extinct cathedral rite of Constantinople.

" I possess some acquaintance with the Russian, being able to read without much difficulty any printed Russian book.

Notwithstanding I have previously heard and read much of the beauty and magnificence of the Russian capital …… There can be no doubt that it is the finest City in Europe, being pre-eminent for the grandeur of its public edifices and the length and regularity of its streets.

Such a view of life and philosophy dominated writers from ancient times through the Renaissance, resulting in classical poetic forms and genres with essentially flat plots and characters ( Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has written that such literature can literally be read front to back, or back to front, with no significant difference in effect ).

He was denied books, but he learned Russian from soldiers captured on the Eastern Front and subsequently read Russian-language histories made available to him by Russian prisoners.

Despite Tsarist censorship proscribing " the harmful doctrines of socialism and communism ", the Russian censors considered Capital as a " strictly scientific work " of political economy the content of which did not apply to monarchic Russia, where " capitalist exploitation " had never occurred, and was officially dismissed, given that " that very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it "; nonetheless, Karl Marx acknowledged that Russia was the country where Capital " was read and valued more than anywhere.