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Zino Davidoff (Zino Davidoff born Zinovy (Zusele-Meer) Gilelevich Davydov, March 11, 1906, Novgorod-Seversky, Chernigov province - January 14, 1994, Geneva) - swiss entrepreneur, creator of the Davidoff brand, which is known for the production of cigars, later - cigarettes, perfumes, coffee, accessories. Davidoff was nicknamed "The Cigar King".

Biography
Born in Novgorod-Seversky, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire in the Jewish family of Heinrich (Hillel) Davydov (in exile - Henri Davidoff), who, according to various sources, was either a manufacturer or trader of tobacco products, and dentist Rakhel Orlova. From childhood, I learned to distinguish between different varieties of tobacco by smell. Almost immediately the family moved to Kyiv, and in 1911, after the Jewish pogroms, family emigrated to Switzerland via Istanbul, where she opened her own tobacco shop in 1916. The store became a meeting place for Russian emigrants during the First World War and, according to Davidoff's corporate history, one of the first buyers of the family's new store in Geneva was Vladimir Lenin, who spent seven years in Switzerland before returning to Russia in 1917 year.

In 1924 Davidoff left Switzerland for South America, visited Argentina, Brazil, Cuba. In Cuba, he worked for 2 years on a tobacco plantation, studied the production of cuban cigars.