question: Were Lazar Lyusternik and Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov both Soviets?
answer: yes
context: Title: Alexander Adashev
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Platonov (Russian: Александр Иванович Платонов , 1871–1934) was a Russian and Soviet stage actor and reader in drama, better known under his stage name Adashev (Адашев) and associated with the Moscow Art Theatre, in 1898–1913.
  Title: Alexander Achziger
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Achziger (Russian: Александр Иванович Ахцигер, born May 1, 1953 ) is a Kazakhstani-German professional ice hockey coach.  He is currently the assistant coach of Kazakhstan men's national ice hockey team and KHL team Barys Astana.
  Title: Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov, or A. I. Mikhailov ( December 6, 1905, Russian Empire – February 6, 1988, Moscow) was a Russian/Soviet Engineer and Information Scientist.  He was one of the most influential thinkers related to the field of Information Science in the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc.
  Title: Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Конова́лов ) (September 17, 1875, Moscow - January 28, 1949, Paris, France; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery) was a Russian Kadet politician and entrepreneur.  One of Russia's biggest textile manufacturers, he became a leader of the liberal, business-oriented Progressist Party and was a member of the Progressive Bloc in the Fourth Duma.  During World War I he was vice president of Alexander Guchkov's Military-Industrial Committee, and after the February Revolution he became Minister of Trade and Industry in the Provisional Government.  After the October Revolution he emigrated to France, where he was a leader of leftist Russian émigrés; at the start of World War II he moved to the United States.
  Title: Alexander Medvedev
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведев; "Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedev" ) (born 14 August 1955 in Shakhtyorsk, Sakhalin Oblast) is the current Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom.  Medvedev also served as Director-General of Gazprom's export arm Gazprom Export from 2006 until 2014.  He is a member of the Coordination Committee of RosUkrEnergo and a member of the shareholders' committee of Nord Stream AG, and was the first president of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), serving from 2008 until his resignation in 2014.
  Title: Alexander Marinesko
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (Russian: Александр Иванович Маринеско , Ukrainian: Олександр Iванович Марiнеско , "Aleksandr Ivanovich Marinesko", "Alexander Marinesco"; Romanian: "Alexandru Marinescu" ) (15 January 1913 – 25 November 1963) was a Soviet naval officer and, during World War II, the captain of the S-13 submarine that sank the German refugee transport ship "Wilhelm Gustloff".  The most successful Soviet submarine commander in terms of gross register tonnage (GRT) sunk, with 42,000 GRT to his name, he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest distinction in the Soviet Union.
  Title: Sparse grid
  Passage: Sparse grids are numerical techniques to represent, integrate or interpolate high dimensional functions.  They were originally developed by the Russian mathematician Sergey A. Smolyak, a student of Lazar Lyusternik, and are based on a sparse tensor product construction.  Computer algorithms for efficient implementations of such grids were later developed by Michael Griebel and Christoph Zenger.
  Title: Alexander Todorsky
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky (September 8, 1894 – August 27, 1965) was a Soviet general and corps commander.  He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war.  He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star.  He was a graduate of the Frunze Military Academy.  He retired from the military at the age of 61.  He is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
  Title: Lazar Lyusternik
  Passage: Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik (also Lusternik, Lusternick, Ljusternik; Ла́зарь Аро́нович Люсте́рник ; 31 December 1899, Zduńska Wola, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (present-day Republic of Poland) – 23 July 1981, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union) was a Soviet mathematician.
  Title: Alexander Polezhayev
  Passage: Alexander Ivanovich Polezhayev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Полежа́ев , 11 September [o.s. 30 August] 1804, v.Pokryshkino, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire – 28 [o.s. 16] January 1838, Moscow, Russian Empire), was a controversial Russian poet, best known for his satirical poem "Sashka" which in 1826 resulted in his being demoted to the Russian Army in the Caucasus, by a special decree of Nicolas I who saw this daring challenge as a continuation of the Decembrist revolt.  Polezhayev continued to write satires (describing the Russian Tsar as 'a hangman' and 'an Emperor corporal') and in the early 1830s became close to the radicals, one of whom, Alexander Hertzen, later remembered him with great warmth in his book of memoirs "My Past and Thoughts".  A volatile and rebellious character prone to heavy drinking, Polezhayev got involved in a series of incidents, the last of which resulted in his being punished by flogging so severe, fragments of twigs had to be extracted surgically form his back.  After that, in the course of several months, Alexander Polezhayev fell ill with tuberculosis and died.
citations: Lazar Lyusternik Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov