| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Kaplun |
| Name | Yakov |
| Patronym | Leonidovich |
| Birth year | 1947 |
| Birth month | 4 |
| Birth day | 15 |
| Birth place | Chernivtsi |
| Sex | M |
Kaplun Yakov Leonidovich (15 April 1947, Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR) — engineer.
Yakov Kaplun was the son of Kaplun Leonid (1912, Volontirovka village, Kaushany District, Romania) and Kaplun (née Miller) Liba (1917, Bendery).
From 1962 to 1969 he worked as a senior design technician in the Design Bureau of the VEF plant. In 1969 he became an engineer in the design bureau of the Ministry of Communications of the Latvian SSR. From 1970 to 1972, and again from 1974 to 1978, he worked as an engineer in the design department of the Directorate for the Production and Installation of Lifting and Transport Equipment of the USSR Ministry of the Merchant Marine. From 1972 to 1974 he served in the Soviet Army. In 1977 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers, specialising as an electrical engineer.
In 1978 Yakov Kaplun received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of his maternal uncle, Miller Moisey (1914, Bendery), who had left Riga for Israel in 1972.
Family:
Leonid Kaplun (1912, Volontirovka village, Kaushany District, Romania) — father
Liba Kaplun (née Miller) (1917, Bendery) — mother
Leiser Miller (1924, Bendery) — maternal uncle