Argentina
13 profiles with fame based in Argentina
Argentina — figures with Russian and Soviet roots
This page documents 13 notable figures based in Argentina whose biographies connect to the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, or the states that succeeded them — through birth, parentage, or earlier ancestry. Each profile is sourced and records the specific origin and connection.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentine literary giant and lifelong collaborator of Borges
Miguel Najdorf
Chess player born in the Russian Empire's Warsaw Governorate who remained in Argentina after the 1939 Chess Olympiad
Alberto Gerchunoff
Writer and journalist born in Proskurov in 1883; his Los gauchos judíos (1910) became a classic of Argentine literature
Berta Singerman
Actress and reciter of poetry born in the Minsk Governorate in 1901; filled theatres and bullrings across the Spanish-speaking world with her 'poetic auditions'
César Tiempo
Argentine poet, playwright and screenwriter born Israel Zeitlin in Yekaterinoslav in 1906; creator of the fictional poet Clara Beter
Esteban Boltovskoy
Oceanographer and micropalaeontologist born in the Russian Empire in 1912; from 1948 in Argentina, an authority on foraminifera and on the water masses of the South Atlantic
Jacobo Ficher
Composer and violinist born in Odessa in 1896, a founder of Argentina's Grupo Renovación and author of nearly 140 works
Jacobo Timerman
Journalist and publisher born in Bar, Soviet Ukraine, in 1923; founder of Primera Plana and La Opinión, and author of Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jevel Katz
Yiddish singer-songwriter born in Vilna in 1902 who became the most popular Jewish entertainer of 1930s Buenos Aires, mixing Yiddish with Spanish in his songs
Samuel Glusberg
Editor and writer born in Kishinev in 1898, known as Enrique Espinoza; founder of the magazine Babel and one of the leading independent publishers of Latin America
Stepan Erzya
Mordvin sculptor born in Bayevo in 1876 who spent 1927–1950 in Buenos Aires, carving portraits in the hardwoods quebracho and algarrobo
Wladimiro Acosta
Architect born Vladimir Konstantinovsky in Odessa in 1900; pioneer of modern and bioclimatic architecture in Argentina with his 'Helios system'
Xul Solar
Argentine painter and visionary born in 1887 to a father from Riga; inventor of imaginary languages and a friend of Jorge Luis Borges