Nusinsky Leonid Markovich (1915)

Nusinsky Leonid Markovich (16 June 1915, Bila Tserkva) — chef and confectioner.

Leonid Nusinsky was the son of Mark Nusinsky (1891, Odessa – …) and Bronya Nusinskaya (1888, Gomel Region – 1967, Riga). In 1927, he completed four classes of primary school in Bila Tserkva. From 1928 to 1933, he trained as a confectioner and subsequently worked as a confectioner at the Friend of Children production enterprise in Bila Tserkva. Between 1933 and 1938, he was employed as a confectioner in a Promkooperatsiya artel in Birobidzhan.

From 1938 to 1941, Nusinsky worked as a cook-instructor in a construction battalion in Kamianets-Podilskyi. In 1941, he served as head chef at the military trading organisation (Voentorg) in Bila Tserkva. From 1941 to 1942, he was a cook-instructor with the 319th Airfield Maintenance Battalion (Ukrainian Front). In 1942, he was wounded and sent to Evacuation Hospital No. 4710. Until 1945, he worked as a cook at the same hospital, which in 1945 was stationed in Belgorod Region and later in Germany.

From 1945 to 1948, he was a civilian employee at a rest home of the Soviet Military Administration in Erkner (East Germany). In 1948–49, he served as head of production at the sausage workshop of the Food Combine of the Union of Agricultural Cooperatives in Riga. From 1949 to 1950, he worked as a cook at Canteen No. 17, and in 1950 as head chef and confectioner at Canteen No. 10 of the Workers’ Supply Department of the Riga Railway Directorate of the 1st Latvian Railway. From 1950 to 1951, he was a master confectioner in the Partika artel. Between 1951 and 1962, he worked as head of the confectionery workshop at the Brīvais Darbs artel of the Latvian Consumers’ Cooperative Union.

In 1962, Leonid Nusinsky was employed as a confectioner in Confectionery Workshop No. 2 of the Daugava Restaurant, part of the Public Catering Trust of Moscow District, Riga. From 1962 to 1976, he worked as a confectioner, master confectioner, deputy head of the confectionery workshop, and brigade leader at enterprises of the same trust. Between 1976 and 1978, he served as a master of industrial training at the Public Catering Trust of Moscow District, Riga. From 1978, he was retired.

He was a people’s assessor of the People’s Court of Moscow District, Riga. Nusinsky was awarded the medals For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–45, 20 Years of Victory over Germany, 30 Years of Victory over Germany, 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR, For Valorous Labour, and Veteran of Labour.

In his marriage to Khava Sosnovskaya (1920, Gomel Region), two children were born: Mark Nusinsky (1949, Riga) and Ludmila Nusinskaya (1952, Riga). Nusinsky’s father was killed at the front in the fighting near Stalingrad. In 1979, Nusinsky received permission to emigrate to Israel.

Family:

Khava Sosnovskaya (1920, Gomel Region) — wife
Mark Nusinsky (1949, Riga) — son
Ludmila Nusinskaya (1952, Riga) — daughter
Mark Nusinsky (1891, Odessa – …) — father
Bronya Nusinskaya (1888, Gomel Region – 1967, Riga) — mother
Semyon Nusinsky (1922, Bila Tserkva) — brother