Goldfeld Mark Ilyich (1901)

Goldfeld Mark Ilyich (1901 – date of death unknown) — accountant, economist, and veteran.

From May 1920 to June 1922, Mark Goldfeld served as a private in the 62nd Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division within the 1st Cavalry Army. After demobilisation, he was employed at Bobrynskaya station on the South-Western Railway as a station commandant from 1922 to 1923.

Between 1923 and 1941, he held various roles in the food industry across Moscow, Tbilisi, Kyiv, and Lviv, including accountant, economist, and head of the Supply and Distribution Department at the Union Butter Trust (Soyuzmaslotrest), later becoming director of planning.

In 1941, he was mobilised for military-field construction works in Ulyanovsk Oblast, remaining there until 1942. From 1942 to 1943, he was senior instructor at the District Consumer Cooperative in Tagay, Ulyanovsk Oblast. From April 1943 until the end of the war, he served at the front, participating in the battles over Minsk and Warsaw. He was wounded twice in Germany.

Following his wartime service, Goldfeld was demobilised and from 1946 to 1949 held the position of head of a procurement branch within a military unit of the Soviet occupation forces in Germany. In 1950, he relocated to Riga, where he worked in trade cooperative management until 1960, as deputy department head, engineer, and economist.

In 1960, he was assigned to the Experimental Mechanical Plant of the Local Industry Administration of the Latvian SSR, where he worked until retiring in November 1962.

Mark Goldfeld was decorated with two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd class), and six campaign and service medals.