Belenky

Belenky, feminine: Belenkaya (Russian: Беленький, Беленькая) is a Russian surname, typically of people of Jewish origin. In 1972 it was the 14th most common Jewish surname in Moscow and the 16th in Leningrad.^[1]

The surname may refer to:

Valery Belenky, Soviet Azerbaijani/German artistic gymnast
Abram Belenky, Soviet secret service (Cheka/GPU/NKVD) leader
Dina Belenkaya, Russian chess player
Maya Belenkaya, Soviet figure skater

^ "Левин, Фридман, Рабинович…" Archived 2013-06-10 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved December 26, 2014) The webpage cites as its source the book A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire by Alexander Beider (1993)

[1] "Левин, Фридман, Рабинович…" Archived 2013-06-10 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved December 26, 2014) The webpage cites as its source the book A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire by Alexander Beider (1993)

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