Semyon Lavochkin
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Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin was a Soviet aerospace engineer, Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Lavochkin aircraft design bureau. Many of his fighter designs were produced in large numbers for
Semyon Lavochkin
Melamed
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Melamed, Melammed in Biblical times denoted a religious teacher or instructor in general, but which in the Talmudic period was applied especially to a teacher of children, and was almost invariably fo
Semyon Lavochkin
…in large numbers for Soviet forces during World War II. Lavochkin was born to a Jewish family in Smolensk. His father, Alter Ilyich Lavochkin, was a melamed, his mother, Gita Savelyevna, was a housewife. In 1917 he graduated from the Kursk gymnasium. He enlisted in the Red Army and served in the infantry…
A Jewish father teaching a child in 19th-century Podolia.