Vainshtein

Vainshtein (originally an Eastern European spelling variant of Weinstein) is a German and Yiddish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Gil Vainshtein (born 1984), Canadian soccer player
• Lev Vainshtein (1916–2004), Soviet sport shooter
• Samuil Vainshtein (1894–1942), Russian chess player
• Sevyan Vainshtein (1926–2008), Russian anthropologist and historian
• Arkady Vainshtein (born 1942), Russian-American theoretical physicist
• Leonid Vainshtein (1945–1994), Azerbaijani-Jew composer
• Boris Vainshtein (1921–1996), Russian crystallographer

• Weinstein