Popova Zara-Beyla Berkovna (1930)

Popova (née Wassermann) Zara-Beyla Berkovna (21 March 1930, Riga) — paediatrician.

After completing secondary school in 1948, Zara-Beyla Popova enrolled in the Riga Medical Institute, from which she graduated in 1954. From 1954 to 1977 she worked as a paediatrician at Riga City Hospital No. 3; subsequently as a physician-inspector at the Riga Municipal Health Department; from January 1977 — paediatrician at Children’s Polyclinic No. 5 in Riga.

In 1980 she applied for permission to emigrate to Israel for permanent residence. Liable for military service; Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service (Reserve).

On 16 September 1952 she married Stepan Ivanovich Popov (b. 1930, Okhtyrka, Sumy Region — ?), chief specialist at the Riga branch of the Teploelektroproekt Institute. The marriage was dissolved on 29 July 1980.

The marriage produced two sons:

— Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov(2 May 1955, Riga — ?), until 21 July 1980 resided in Riga and worked as an orderly at a dermatovenerologic dispensary; later emigrated with his family to Israel, where he studied at an ulpan;

— Leonid Stepanovich Popov.

Father — Wassermann Berka Aronovich.

Mother — Vasermanis (née Godina; until 1976 — Wassermann) Riva Mendelevna.

Brothers:

— Wassermann Mark Berkovich (9 September 1946, Jēkabpils — ?), engineer at the Gipronickel Institute in Leningrad;

— Wassermann Aizik Berkovich.