Dyudya (born 1983) – professional Ukrainian cyclist Kostyantyn Efymenko (born 1975) – president of Biofarma, Chairman of Tribo Mikhail Eisenstein (1867-1920, born as Moisey Eisenstein) - civil engineer, designer many of the best-known Art Nouveau buildings of Riga, Latvia, and the father of Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein David Goodman, father of Benny Goodman – American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing" Axel Firsoff (1910–1981) – British astronomer, born in Bila Tserkva Boris Samoilovich Iampol'skii (1912–1972) – Russian-language writer Andrzej Klimowicz (1918–1996) – operative for Zegota, the government-supported resistance group, organized to help Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. They are said to have saved tens of thousands from 1942 to 1945. Les Kurbas (1887–1937) – movie and theater director, co-founder of Soviet theater avant-garde and a prominent figure of the Executed Renaissance Yuri Linnik (1915–1972) – Soviet mathematician Ivan Mazepa (1639–1709) – Hetman of Zaporizhian Host from 1687 to 1708 Olexandr Medvid' (born 1937) – Soviet Belarusian wrestler Halyna Nevinchana (born 1957) – painter, writer, journalist Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky (1838–1918) – writer, ethnographer, folklorist, teacher Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974) – World War II Soviet sniper. Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history. Pavlo Popovich (1930–2009) – Soviet astronaut, fourth ever person in outer space, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933) – American cantor Shaye Shkarovsky (1891–1945) – Yiddish author Yaakov Steinberg (1887–1947) – Yiddish and Hebrew short-story writer, essayist, critic, and translator Mikhael Sukernik (1902–1981) – Soviet Russian-Ukrainian chemist who contributed to the development and publication of a Russian-Yiddish dictionary published in 1984 Climate Bila Tserkva is located at 49°47'58.6" North, 30°06'32.9" East and is above sea level. The city has a total area of . Sister cities Tarnów, Poland Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland Jingzhou, China Kaunas, Lithuania Kremenchuk, Ukraine Braunschweig, Germany See also Arboretum Oleksandriya Bela Crkva, Banat Battle of Bila Tserkva (1651) Bila Tserkva Massacre Bila Tserkva Raion Bila Tserkva Regiment Bila Tserkva Together Great Choral Synagogue Kyiv Oblast Treaty of Bila Tserkva References External links Official Bila Tserkva city webportal in Ukrainian History of Jewish Community in Belaya Tserkov Kyiv Judaica Institute Period photos of Bila Tserkva Images of Arboretum Oleksandriia Sightseeing in Bila Tserkva 1032 establishments in Europe Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Populated places established in the 11th century