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Alexander Boroda, Director General of the Jewish Museum, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia

Alexander Moiseevich Boroda is the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, director and founder of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, rabbi and founder of the Jewish Religious and Cultural Center «Zhukovka».

Alexander Moiseevich was born on July 2, 1968 in Moscow in a family of engineers. He served in the army and Navy. He graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Surveying.

As a young man, he began attending the synagogue in Maryina Grove, and soon began to take an active part in the life and development of the community. Already in the second half of the 1990s, with his assistance, the construction of the Moscow Jewish Community Center, the largest in Eastern Europe, began. In 1999, the largest centralized structure of Jewish communities in Russia was established — FEOR with representative offices throughout Russia from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. FEOR includes synagogues, community centers, kindergartens, schools, universities, humanitarian and social assistance centers.

Kristina Krasnyanskaya, Executive Director, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

Kristina Krasnyanskaya was born in Kiev on May 25, 1979, to Georgy Krasnyansky, an engineer, and Olga Krasnyanskaya. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the Institute for Cultural Enlightenment, wh ere, in 2007, she defended her thesis on «Color and Light in the Works of the Russian Émigré Artist André Lanskoy.»

In 2006, Kristina Krasnyanskaya founded the Heritage international gallery, which since February 2008 is located in the historical center of Moscow. Since the gallery’s inception, Kristina Krasnyanskaya has organized and curated numerous exhibitions, both in Russia and other countries, and co-authored the book «Soviet Design: From Constructivism to Modernism. 1920–1980» published by Scheidegger & Spiess.

In 2017, Kristina Krasnyanskaya was named the chair of the Board of Trustees of MOMus–Museum of Modern Art–Costakis Collection.

In July 2021, she was appointed Executive Director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.