Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905, into a Russian-Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg.
ɹˈænd wʌz bˈɔːɹn ˈælɪsə zˈɪnəvɪˌɛvnɚ ɹˈoʊzənbˌaʊm ˌɔn fˈɛbɹuːˌɛɹi tˈuː, nˈaɪntiːnhˈʌndɹɪd fˈaɪv, ˌɪntʊ ɐ ɹˈʌʃəndʒˈuːɪʃ bˈʊɹʒwɑː fˈæmɪli lˈɪvɪŋ ɪn sˈeɪnt pˈiːɾɚzbˌɜːɡ.