 Lev Sternberg

Lev (Chaim-Leib) Yakovlevich Sternberg () (, Zhitomir, Russian Empire – August 14, 1927, Dudergof, now Mozhaisky, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet ethnographer of Jewish origin who from 1889 to 1897 studied the Nivkhs (Gilyaks), Oroks, and Ainu on Sakhalin  and in Siberia for the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City.Sternberg majored in physics and mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University.