Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman
Overview
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
– September 16, 1925, Leningrad
Leningrad
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, USSR) was a Russian
Russians
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and Soviet physicist
Physicist
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and mathematician
Mathematician
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Alexander Friedmann was born to the composer and ballet dancer Alexander Friedman (who was a son of baptized Jewish cantonist) and the pianist Ludmila Voyachek. He lived much of his life in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
. He fought in World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
(on behalf of Imperial Russia) as a bomber and later lived through the Russian Revolution of 1917
Russian Revolution of 1917
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917...
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Friedmann obtained his degree in St.
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