Notable Soviet Koreans
Kim Byung Hwa- Director of the collective farm Poliarnaia Zvezda for thirty years, twice received the honor Geroi Sotsialisticheskogo Truda (Hero of Socialist Labor)
Kim Man Sam- Korean rice farmer in the Kzyl Orda Region. Kim earned his reputation in 1943 when on a field of two hectares he harvested 15,600 kilograms of rice. This was a world record and made the Kzyl Orda Region world-famous.
Georgiy Fedorovich Kim- A leading authority in contemporary Korean history and headed the Department of Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, where he was director until 1985.
Kim Fedor Zinov’evich- Graduated from Central Asian State University. Taught at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies and was a scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences
Nellie Kim- Soviet gymnast who received five golds and one silver medal at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. Nellie Kim was the first woman in Olympic history to earn a perfect 10 on the vault and floor exercise.
Liubov Lee- Twice elected Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Republics (1962 and 1966).
Anatoly Kang- Twice elected Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Republics (1970 and 1974).
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