On Oct. 17, Iosif Ravvin of Columbia at 90. He is survived by wife Tylya Levant; children Faina (Sergei) Atamas and Ilya (Lyudmila Gaft) Ravvin; brother Solomon Ravvin; grandchildren Michael (Tomomi) Atamas, Nicholas (Sondra Yancey) Atamas, Margarita (Arkadiy) Kugot, Nina (Aleksey) Astanina and Alexandr Ravvin; and great-grandchildren Daniel Kugot, Rodion Kugot, Jacob Ryoma Atamas, Mila Atamas, Michael Astanin, Felix Jiyong Atamas-Yancey and Hadassah Atamas. He was predeceased by parents Revekka and Ilya Ravvin.
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