Mogilevsky Mark Isaakovich (1905)

Mogilevsky Mark Isaakovich (24 April 1905, Uman) - lawyer.

Mark Mogilevsky received incomplete higher education. In 1925 he was drafted into the Soviet Army (Kiev Military District). In 1940 he completed three courses (externally) at the Military Law Academy in Kiev. With the outbreak of the war he was sent to the front; in 1942 he was transferred to the border troops in the Buryat–Mongolian ASSR, and later to Brest.

After demobilization he remained in Brest and from 1946 worked in various organizations: in 1946–1948 he was an адвокат (defense attorney) of the Brest Regional Bar Association; in 1948–1949, legal adviser at the “Soyuzutil” office; in 1949–1951, legal adviser to the Brest Interregional Cooperative Union; in 1951–1952, legal adviser at the “Glavrybsbyt” base. In 1954–1956 he worked as a weighman at the Brest–Central railway station.

In 1958 he moved to Riga and until 1959 worked as a piano repair master at a music combine; in 1959–1965 at the State Philharmonic of the Latvian SSR; from March 1966 to May 1973 he worked at the “Spetsdorstroi” trust (later “Latvspetsstroi”) as a labor engineer (also performing the duties of legal adviser), and from 1971 as a legal adviser. From June 1973 he was retired. He was a Group II invalid.

Mark Mogilevsky visited the Polish People’s Republic three times to see his daughter (1960, 1961, 1962). A member of the CPSU from 1942. In 1979 he applied for permission to travel to the USA for 90 days to visit his daughter and attend his grandson’s wedding (held on 21 July 1979).

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, the Medal “For the Defense of Stalingrad,” the Medal “For the Defense of Kiev,” the Medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War,” and the medals “25 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” and “60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR.”

His first wife was Etlya Shlemovna Mogilevskaya (née Shpitsburg) (1904, Uman – 1956, Riga). Their children were Arnold Markovich Mogilevsky (1934, Kiev – ?), a navigator at the Riga Sea Port; Ernest Markovich Mogilevsky (1937, Uman – ?), a career military officer, major, who lived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur; and Meri Mordkovna (Markovna?) Goldberg (née Mogilevskaya). He later married Liliya Karlovna Chakste (1917, Riga – ?); this marriage was dissolved in 1973.

His father was Isaak Moiseevich Mogilevsky (1881, Uman – 1943, Georgievsk), and his mother Esfir Grigoryevna Mogilevskaya (née Turi) (1884, Uman – 1936, Kiev). His brothers were Veniamin Isaakovich Mogilevsky (1904, Uman – 1943), who served at the front in the Soviet Army and died in a hospital, and Avraam Isaakovich Mogilevsky (1912, Uman – 1979, Kiev). His sister was Rakhil Isaakovna Mogilevskaya (1907, Uman – ?), who lived in Kiev.