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.

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. Menshevik leader Lydia Dan acted as his godmother in the “incongruous baptism … undertaken in a tsarist prison so that [he] could have an Orthodox marriage entitling him to take his bride into exile”.[2]

In his name there existed a Jewish National Raion in Crimea in 1930s, Larindorf Raion (today Pervomaiske Raion).

References

  1. Larin Iurii Aleksandrovich, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, August 23, 2010
  2. Liebich, André (1997). From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy After 1921, vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: Harvard University Press. pp. 234 and 408 (note 38). ISBN 9780674325173. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
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