Levi Irina Natanovna (1948)

Levi (Lewy) (née Sokolovskaya) Irina Natanovna (26 November 1948, Moscow) — computer engineer.

Irina Levi was born into the family of Natan Khaimovich Sokolovsky (1916, Dyatlovo, Grodno Region, Belarus), a labourer, and Emma Abramovna Sokolovskaya (née Ruda) (1924, Rostov-on-Don — 1982, Riga), a physician.

In 1953 her family moved to Riga, where Irina completed Secondary School No. 18 (1966), after which she studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Latvian State University (1966–71). From 1971 to 1978 she worked as an engineer and then senior software engineer at the A. S. Popov Riga Radio Plant.

Her marriage to Maksis Bernhardovich Levi (1947, Riga) was childless.

In 1978 Irina Levi received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1977 her husband's parents — Berngard Samuilovich Levi (1916) and Khaya Srolevna Levi (née Kulmas) (1911) — had been living, as well as her husband's twin brother Zamuel Bernhardovich Levi (1947, Riga). She later moved to the United States.

Family:

— Natan Khaimovich Sokolovsky (1916) — father
— Emma Abramovna Sokolovskaya (née Ruda) (1924–1982) — mother
— Alexander Natanovich Sokolovsky (1959, Moscow) — brother
— Maksis Bernhardovich Levi (1947) — husband
— Berngard Samuilovich Levi (1916) — husband’s father
— Khaya Srolevna Levi (née Kulmas) (1911) — husband’s mother
— Zamuel Bernhardovich Levi (1947) — husband’s twin brother