Filtering by Russian
![Leonid Alaverdov at Kings Bay Library, 2020. Photo by Julia Kanin for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/9040/images/img_20200215_150753.jpg?itok=glRzxMJN&c=4eff42af27da53f561ae5554b735d90f)
Leonid Alaverdov
Tapestry artist and Coney Island resident whose work is inspired by his native Baku and New York City
![Photo by Julia Kanin for the Coney Island History Project](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8767/images/maxim_pliskov_2_border_1.jpg?itok=qXHmOsKt&c=1b109e02a9960e9c1ee092a0ce2be467)
Father Maxim Pliskov
Russian Orthodox priest at Coney Island's St. John of Kronstadt Chapel for the Homeless
![Yeva Novik, 2019. Photo by Julia Kanin for the Coney Island History Project.](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/8510/images/yeva_novik_1_.jpg?itok=-LZKnkqr)
Yeva Novik
A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn
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Stanislav Baev
Coney Island resident and founder of the not-for-profit American Alliance for Protection of Animals
![Photo courtesy Olga Lozar](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/7859/images/olga_lozar.jpg?itok=N6l5beaM&c=232f3aaec3bce557e06733a4f673a5a7)
Olga Lozar
A Sea Gate resident who is a Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the pleasures of winter swimming
![Photo courtesy of Naum Barash](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6207/images/dsc_5466.jpg?itok=-Kknyv-w&c=29549df82c2d30c72b1caf059c6c4361)
Naum Barash
A Coney Island Polar Bear recounts his 50 years of winter swimming in Ukraine and Brooklyn
![Photo of vintage X-ray recording courtesy of x-rayaudio.com](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/4122/images/bone_music_1.jpg?itok=KIP_DDbp)
Zinovy Pritsker
Musician and founder of a jazz big band recounts his journey from Leningrad to Southern Brooklyn
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Aisuluu Sartbaeva
Journalist and PTA President of I.S. 303 moved to Coney Island from Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia
![Slava Polishchuk in studio. Photo © Asya Dodina](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/3122/images/slava_polishchuk_in_studio_2.jpg?itok=D7vW8Qb-&c=b1b5c56ca2466c459b7a0f7521db1b69)
Slava Polishchuk
Russian-born artist preserves the past as book and paper conservator at Brooklyn College Library