Boris Stark
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Boris Georgevich Stark was a Russian missionary and priest. Biography Boris Georgevich Stark was born on 15 July 1909 in Kronstadt, Russia. His father was admiral Georgy Karlovich Stark, commander of the Siberian fleet, who emigrated to France in 1922. Boris joined his father in Paris in 1925, when he was sixteen years old. He continued his education in France, graduating as electrical engineer from the Technical Institute in Paris. During his student years he was active in the Russian Students' Christian Movement and he abandoned his engineering career, studying theology and specializing in missionary studies.