Roman Simovych
Roman Apollonovich Simovych( February 28, 1901 – 1984) was a Ukrainian composer, educator and theoretician.
Born in Sniatyn, now in Ukraine, Simovych graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1934- on piano( Vilém Kurz), and again in 1936 undergoing post graduate studies in composition( Prof. Nowak).
From 1936 to 1939 he was a teacher of piano and theoretical subjects at the M. Lysenko Music Institute in Drohobych and Stanislav, and from 1939 to 1942 at the music school in Stanislav( now Ivano- Frankivsk).
From 1951, he was a lecturer and from 1963, a full professor at the Lviv Conservatory.
He received the title Honoured Artist of USSR( 1954).
He died in 1984 and was buried in the Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Svatopluk Pitra
Svatopluk Pitra( 9 March 1923 – 15 July 1993) was a Czech graphic designer, illustrator, cartoonist, designer of animated films and painter.
He graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
At first he became known as a cartoonist.
He began working on animated films in the late 1950s.
In collaboration with directors such as Břetislav Pojar, Jiří Brdečka and Stanislav Látal, he designed cartoon and puppet films.
In 1963 Pitra emigrated to Canada.
He lived in the USA since the mid-1960s.
Stanislav Sychov
Stanislav I. Sychov( ru: Сычёв, Станислав Иванович)( 1937 in Odessa – 2003) was a Ukrainian painter, one of the founders of the Odessa school unofficial art.
He graduated from the Odessa Art School in 1960.
Many critics believe that organized in 1967" exhibition Fence" of young artists and Stanislav Sychev and Valentine Khrushch on the fence of the Odessa Opera House marked the beginning" of the Odessa nonconformism".
This show lasted only three hours.
In 1970 took part in the informal exhibitions in Odessa and Moscow.
In 1989 he participated in the international exhibition" Impreza" in Ivano- Frankivsk.
In 1989, 1994.
- Personal exhibition at the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa.
A significant amount of work is in private collections in Munich, Paris, London, New York, New Jersey, San Francisco ..
Stanislav Zhmakin
Stanislav Zhmakin( born June 25, 1982) is a Russian ice hockey winger who current plays for Yugra Khanty- Mansiysk in the Kontinental Hockey League.
Gennady Komnatov
Gennady Viktorovich Komnatov( 18 September 1949 – 1 April 1979) was a Russian road cyclist.
He was part of the Soviet team that won a gold medal in the 100 km team time trial at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
He won three silver medals at the world championships in 1973 – 1975 in this event.
Komnatov was the eldest sibling in a family of four brothers and one sister.
Influenced by Gennady, two of his younger brothers, Vasily and Stanislav, became cycling coaches.
Komnatov died aged 29 in a traffic accident.
A monument in his honor stands in the village of Zhelannoye where he was born.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Leonid Rezetdinov
Leonid Fiatovich Rezetdinov( August 5, 1961) is a Russian composer and a winner of the" National Prize" of the Russian Academy of Advertising.
He was born in Leningrad( now Saint Petersburg) and attended Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he was under guidance of Boris Tishchenko till 1985.
In 1988 he joined Russian Union of Composers and two years later became an attendee of the International Society for Contemporary Music where his teacher was Witold Lutosławski.
For eight years after it, he was a teacher at the Musical College of Rimsky- Korsakov and by 2000 became a CEO and record producer at Studio Digital Film Production of Saint- Petersburg Documentary Film Studio.
The same year he joined Music Fund and became an author of over 30 film scores.
In 2009 he won the first prize at the Berdyansk International Film Festival and since then worked with various conductors such as Vladimir Altschuler, Valery Gergiev and Stanislav Gribkov.
He also worked with Leonid Korchmar, Ravil Martynov, Vasily Petrenko, Rashid Skuratov, and Alexander Titov and have traveled throughout Europe, Asia and North America.
Dănuț Borbil
Dănuț Borbil( born February 18, 1973 in Luduș) is a professional Romanian armwrestler, the current national champion for the left arm, and vice- champion for the right arm.
At he is the heaviest professional armwrestling participant from Romania.
Stanislav Heller
Stanislav Heller( 15 September 1924 – 23 January 2000) was a harpsichordist and musicologist of Czech origin.
Born in Brno, he studied piano with Vilém Kurz and organ with Bedřich Wiederman at the Prague Conservatoire.
His family emigrated to South America after World War II and Stanislav Heller moved then to London in 1947 and later became a British subject.
He started a career as a concert harpsichordist there( one of the first concert harpsichordists in the 20th century) and also toured with Rafael Kubelík.
In 1968 he moved to Freiburg as Professor of harpsichord and early chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik.
Alessandro Taverna
Alessandro Taverna( born 1983 in Portogruaro, Venice) is an Italian pianist.
He trained at the Accademia Pianistica" Incontri col Maestro" in Imola with Franco Scala, Leonid Margarius and Boris Petrushansky; he later specialized with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at the International Piano Academy Lake Como working with Dmitri Bashkirov, Malcolm Bilson, Fou Ts'ong, and Stanislav Ioudenitch.
He has been a" Lieven Scholar" at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana( Lugano) pursuing his master's degree in Advanced Performance Studies with William Grant Naboré.

Question: Were Dănuț Borbil and Stanislav Zhmakin of the same nationality?
Answer: no