Who was born first, Mikhail Kravchuk or Israel Gelfand?
Mikhail Kravchuk Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk, also Krawtchouk (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Пили́пович Кравчу́к ) (September 27, 1892 – March 9, 1942), was a Soviet Ukrainian mathematician who, despite his early death, was the author of around 180 articles on mathematics.
David Zaslavsky David Zaslavsky (1880 – March, 1965) was a prominent Soviet journalist and propagandist under Stalin. He was born near Kiev, Russia. He joined the Bund (the Jewish socialist party of the Russian Empire) and initially opposed the Bolsheviks, but a few years after the latter established the Soviet Union he became a Communist supporter.