| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Piter |
| Name | Eliy |
| Patronym | Davidovich |
| Birth year | 1882 |
| Birth month | 11 |
| Birth day | 9 |
| Birth place | Dvinsk |
| Sex | M |
Piter Eliy (Elij) Davidovich (9 November 1882, Dvinsk, Vitebsk Governorate – ?)- educator.
In 1907 Eliy Piter graduated from the Alexander I Men’s Gymnasium in Novgorod. He began his teaching career in Syzran, Simbirsk Governorate: from June 1912 to September 1918 he taught Hebrew and Jewish history at the Jewish school in Syzran and at the Jewish communal school Kheder Metukan. During this period he also served as the community rabbi of Syzran.
From 1919 to 1921 he studied at Samara State University in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. From 1922 he taught, initially as an acting teacher, Hebrew, Jewish history, and geography at the Primary and Secondary School of the Jewish Society for the Advancement of Arts and Knowledge. From 1929 he taught at the private Jewish gymnasium Tushiya. He completed two-year state pedagogical courses and in 1934 received certification as a fully qualified teacher.