Moreins Iosif Izrailevich (1943)

Moreins Iosif Izrailevich (30 May 1943, Kotel’nich, Kirov Oblast) — dentist.

Iosif Moreins was born into the family of Israel Moreins (1910, Jēkabpils — 1942, Staraya Russa) and Etta Moreins (née Ginsburg) (1912, Jēkabpils — 1986, Jēkabpils). He was born in evacuation and in 1944 moved with his parents to Jēkabpils. In 1960 he graduated from Jēkabpils Secondary School. In 1965 he graduated from the Riga Medical Institute with a degree in dentistry.

In 1965–66 and 1967–68 he worked as a dentist at the Glazunovka District Hospital in Orel Oblast. In 1966–67 he served in the Soviet Army, working as a feldsher in a military unit stationed in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. In 1968 he worked as an anesthesiologist at the Sverdlovsk Central Hospital. In the same year he moved to the village of Kalna, Jēkabpils District, and until 1971 worked as a dentist at a rural outpatient clinic.

In 1971–73 he was a dentist in a military unit stationed in Kaliningrad Oblast. In 1973–89 he worked as a dentist at the Kalna outpatient clinic and at the Jēkabpils District Hospital.

In marriage with Erna Moreins (née Samyshina) (1942, Ufa), a daughter was born: Nadezhda Moreins (1969, Jēkabpils).

In 1989 Iosif Moreins received permission to emigrate to Israel on the invitation of his father’s cousin, Reuven Aviv, who had left Latvia in the 1930s for the territory of Palestine.

Family:

Erna Moreins (née Samyshina) (1942, Ufa) — wife
Nadezhda Moreins (1969, Jēkabpils) — daughter
Mikhail Moreins (1978, Jēkabpils) — son
Israel Moreins (1910, Jēkabpils — 1942, Staraya Russa) — father
Etta Moreins (née Ginsburg) (1912, Jēkabpils — 1986, Jēkabpils) — mother
Inna Zhukova (née Moreins) (1935, Jēkabpils) — sister
Frida Moreins (1937, Jēkabpils) — sister
Reuven Aviv — father’s cousin
Lyuba Spungen (née Meilakh) (1949, Jēkabpils) — cousin