Yuri Larin
Yuri Aleksandrovich Larin (Russian: Ю́рий Ла́рин; *1882 – †1932), born in Simferopol as Mikhail Aleksandrovich Lurie, was a Soviet economist and politician, one of the ideologists of Jewish autonomy in Crimea.
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Yuri Larin (1906)
He was head of OZET, the Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land. His father, Shneur Zalman Lurie, was an engineer, Hebrew author and Zionist.[1] His adopted daughter was Anna Larina. His godmother was Menshevik leader Lydia Dan.[2]
In his name there existed a Jewish National Raion in Crimea in 1930s, Larindorf Raion (today Pervomaiske Raion).
References
- Larin Iurii Aleksandrovich, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, August 23, 2010
- Liebich, André (1997). From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy After 1921, vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: Harvard University Press. p. 234. ISBN 9780674325173. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
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