Yulii Borisovich Khariton

Julius Borisovich Khariton was born in St. Petersburg into a Jewish family. His father, Boris Osipovich Khariton, was a well-known journalist who was expelled from the USSR in 1922, after the annexation of Latvia to the USSR in 1940, he was sentenced to 7 years and died two years later in a camp. Mother, Mirra Yakovlevna Burovskaya (Eitingon in her second marriage), was an actress (stage name Mirra Birens), played at the Moscow Art Theater. Parents divorced in 1907, when Yu. B. Khariton was a child.