Mikhail Alafuso
Mikhail Ivanovich Alafuso( 1891 – 13 July 1937) was a Soviet general who received the title of Komkor on November 11, 1935.
He was born in Mykolaiv in what it is now Ukraine.
He was a recipient of the Order of St. Anna and the Order of Saint Stanislaus( Russian) from the Russian Empire and the Order of the Red Banner from the Soviet Union.
He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and in the Russian Civil War in the Soviet Red Army.
During the Great Purge, he was arrested on April 15, 1937 and later executed in Moscow.
He was on the death list of July 10, 1937, which was signed by Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov.
Avel Yenukidze
Avel Safronovich Yenukidze(" Abel Enukidze",;; — 30 October 1937) was a prominent" Old Bolshevik" and, at one point, a member of the Soviet Central Committee in Moscow.
In 1932, along with Mikhail Kalinin and Vyacheslav Molotov, Yenukidze co-signed the infamous" Law of Spikelets".
Vyacheslav Skoromnov
Vyacheslav Skoromnov( born March 2, 1974 in Andijan) is an Uzbek- born Qatari sport shooter.
He has been selected to compete for his native Uzbekistan in rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has achieved a total of two medals, a gold and a silver, and numerous top ten finishes in a major international competition, spanning the Asian Games( 1998 to 2014), and the Asian Championships.
Currently living in Doha, Qatar since 2010, Skoromnov holds his dual citizenship to compete internationally in shooting.
Skoromnov qualified for his native Uzbek squad in rifle shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Having registered a minimum qualifying score of 597, he chased China's eventual Olympic champion Jia Zhanbo through a single- point lead to take the gold medal and fill in the Olympic quota place for Uzbekistan at the Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia few months earlier.
Skoromnov started off with the 10 m air rifle, where he shot a steady 592 out of a possible 600 to tie for eighteenth with three other shooters.
Four days later, Skoromnov came up with an ill- fated aim to get 591 points in the qualifying round of his signature event, the 50 m rifle prone, that saw him toppling down the leaderboard to a twenty- fourth in a 46- shooter field.
In his third and last event, the 50 m rifle 3 positions, Skoromnov marked a scintillating 394 in prone, 380 in standing, and 387 in kneeling to collect a total score of 1161 points and tie for twelfth place with two- time Olympian Timothy Lowndes of Australia and Olympic silver medalist Christian Lusch of Germany, having been close to an Olympic final by just three points.
Yuri Slesarev
Yuri Slesarev( born 1947) is a Russian pianist.
A graduate of Moscow Conservatory's Central Music School, he studied piano under Victor Merzhanov.
After winning the All- Union Piano Competition in Tallinn in 1969, he took part in several international contests, winning the 1972 Montevideo Competition.
He was active as a concert pianist through Europe and South America in subsequent years.
Slesarev is a People's Artist of Russia, and now teaches at the Moscow Conservatory.
His pupils have included Vitaly Pisarenko and Vyacheslav Gryaznov.
Vladimir Gittis
Vladimir Mikhailovich Gittis( 24 June 1881 – 22 August 1938) was a Soviet komkor.
He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war.
He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner( 1919).
He commanded the forces in Leningrad following the end of the civil war.
During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 28 November 1937.
His name appeared on the death list of 20 August 1938 which was signed by Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov.
He was convicted that day by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union of espionage and sentenced to death.
He was executed two days later at Kommunarka.
Phil Lafon
Philip Lafon( born September 16, 1960) is a Canadian professional wrestler.
He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as Phil Lafon and with All Japan Pro Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling under the ring name Dan Kroffat.
Barthelemy Lafon
Barthélemy Lafon( 1769 –1820) was a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He appears to have had a double life, as a respectable architect, engineer, and citizen; but also as a privateer, smuggler, and pirate.
In later life his association with piracy, specifically with Jean Lafitte and Pierre Lafitte became public knowledge.
Lafon was born in Villepinte, France, and traveled to New Orleans c. 1790.
He designed several public buildings, including public baths( plans submitted in 1797, but the bath house was never built) and a lighthouse, and numerous private homes( including the Benachi cotton brokers' house and the Vincent Rillieux house).
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, with the Mississippi River open to free trade, land owners just upriver from the Vieux Carré realized that the old quarter dominated by the Spanish and French could not contain the great number of Americans who were now flocking to the city, and they retained Lafon to subdivide their property and create an American suburb.
From 1806 to 1809, Lafon also served as deputy surveyor of Orleans Parish, during the territorial period prior to statehood.
He prepared elaborate plans for what is today known as the Lower Garden District.
His designs crossed the boundaries of five plantations( Soule, LaCourse, Annunciation, Nuns, and Panis), to include all properties up to Felicity Street.
A lover of the classics, Lafon named his streets after the nine muses of Greek mythology: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Euterpe, Polymnia, and Urania.
His sophisticated plan featuring tree- lined canals, fountains, churches, markets, a grand classical school, and a coliseum; but few of these features were ever realized.
However, the grid pattern of streets survives, as do the parks and some of the street names leading to Coliseum Square.
In 2014- 15, one of the neighborhood association's projects is to restore the Lafon Fountain in Coliseum Square, installed c. 1976, with plans to restore two other nearby fountains.
Parts of the Bywater and Bayou St. John neighborhoods were also planned by Lafon.
His professional services included mapmaking, designing the plan for Donaldsonville in 1806, and surveying and recommending improvements to the fortifications of New Orleans during the War of 1812.
Lafon had a long- term relationship with Modeste Foucher, a free woman of color.
When Lafon wrote his will in 1809, he acknowledged two African- American children he had with Foucher, Pierre Barthélemy and Carmélite.
Thomy Lafon, a son of Modeste Foucher, was likely named after Barthélemy Lafon; but Thomy's father was Pierre Larande.
As a businessman and investor, Lafon became a rich man and was noted for his philanthropy.
However, after the Battle of New Orleans early in 1815, he did not resume his architectural career.
Instead, he turned to piracy and smuggling, working in league with the notorious brothers, Pierre( 1770 – 1821) and Jean Lafitte( c.1780–c.1823).
Lafon died of yellow fever in New Orleans on September 29, 1820, and was buried in Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1.
Viktor Suslin
Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin( June 13, 1942, Miass, Ural, Russia – July 10, 2012, Hamburg, Germany) was a Russian composer.
An associate of Sofia Gubaidulina's, together with her and Vyacheslav Artyomov he formed the improvisatory ensemble' Astraea' in 1975.
He emigrated to Germany in 1981.
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.
Martial Piéchaud
Martial Piéchaud( 6 September 1888 in Bordeaux – 24 August 1957 in Nay), was a 20th- century French writer, literary critic and playwright.
He was a member of the" Lost Generation", and childhood friend of François Mauriac, André Lafon and Jean de La Ville de Mirmont.
He won the Narcisse Michaud prize of the Académie française in 1951.

Question: Are Barthelemy Lafon and Vyacheslav Skoromnov of the same nationality?
Answer: no