'''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
==See also== *Veinstein * Weinstein
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Category:Surnames of Jewish origin Category:Yiddish-language surnames