page_title: Nadezhda Ulanovskaya
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Nadezhda Ulanovskaya / Background
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Bereszada
context_page_description: Nadezhda Markovna Ulanovskaya, AKA Nadia or Nadya, was a Soviet intelligence GRU officer, translator, English teacher, wife Alexander Ulanovsky, and mother of Maya Ulanovskaya.
context_section_description: Nadezhda Ulanovskaya was born Esther Markovna Fridgant in Bershad in the then Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Her father was a trader; her grandfather Nukhim Fridgant was a rabbi and possibly a descendant of a Hasidic tzaddik Reful (Friedgant). Ulanovskaya studied in private and village schools.  In 1917, after the February Revolution, the family moved to Odessa.
caption: Former Moszyński Palace in Bershad, Ulanovskaya's birthplace
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