Guskova Rita Isaakovna (1932)

Guskova (née Roitman) Rita Isaakovna (born 10 December 1932, Donetsk) — telephone operator.

Rita Guskova began her education in 1940 at School No. 22 in Donetsk. During World War II, she and her family were evacuated to the city of Marks in Saratov Oblast, where she completed the second grade. In 1944 she returned to Donetsk and graduated from the seventh grade at School No. 22 in 1949. From 1949 to 1951, she attended the Donetsk Mining and Construction Technical School.

From 1951 to 1954, Guskova worked as a telephone operator at the Donetsk long‑distance telephone exchange; in 1954–55 she served at the StalinoUgol’ combine; from 1955 to 1957, she was employed at the communications hub of MUP USSR in Donetsk; and in 1957 she worked at the Donetsk city telephone exchange (GTS).

In 1957, she moved to Riga, where she worked at the main long‑distance telephone exchange until 1958. Later in 1958, she served as a bathhouse attendant at the “Dzirkstele” sanatorium in Jūrmala. Following this, she returned to Donetsk and, until 1972, was employed as a telephone operator, later advancing to senior operator at the Donetsk city exchange.

In 1969, Guskova traveled to Czechoslovakia. From 1972 to 1974, she worked as a dispatcher at the Central Dispatch Service of the Donetsk Passenger Transport Administration, and then until 1975 as a laboratory assistant in the chemical workshop of “DonetskTeploset’”. In 1975 she relocated again to Riga, where she worked as a telephone operator at the Riga Telegraph‑Telephone Station until 1980. In 1980 she applied for an exit permit to Israel for permanent residence.

On 22 September 1953, Rita married Yuri Grigoryevich Guskov (born 1926, Livny, Oryol Oblast), who worked as a communications supervisor at the Donetsk long‑distance station. Their marriage was dissolved on 11 March 1970. Their son is Vladimir Yuryevich Guskov (b. 27 April 1955, Donetsk).

Family background:

Father — Isaak Shmulevich Roitman (1905, Odessa region – 1960, Riga), laborer at a Donetsk metallurgical plant.

Mother — Ester Iosifovna Roitman (née Solodovnik) (1905, Odessa region – 1964, Riga).

Sisters — Khasya Isaakovna Gordon (née Roitman); and Mimi Isaakovna Veltzker (née Solodovnik) (born 1922, Uman region), who lived in Israel.