Rud Meyer Skhorievich (1946)

Rud Meyer Skhorievich (Sakharyevich) Rud (4 February 1946, Vinnytsia, Ukraine) — engineer.

Meyer Rud was born to Skhoriy (Sakhariy) Meerovich Rud (1922 — according to other sources 1905 — 1961, Vinnytsia) and Esther Leibovna Rosenman (née Pikhotnik, first married Rud; 1925, Harbin, China).

In 1948 he moved with his parents to Riga. He studied at Riga Secondary School No. 30 (1953–1958), then at Secondary School No. 34 (1958–1961). In 1962 he completed the 9th grade of Secondary School No. 30 and was transferred to the 2nd Evening Secondary School, while simultaneously working as a milling machine operator at Plant No. 85 of the Civil Air Fleet (1962–1963).

He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Latvian State University in 1970. During his studies he worked as a technician at the Riga branch of enterprise p/o box 101 (1965–1966), at the Research Institute for Standardization and Testing of Electronic Equipment (NIINIEt) (1966–1967), as acting engineer at the Institute of Biology of the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences (1967–1970), and as senior engineer at the Botanical Garden of the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences (1971).

In 1971–1972 he served in the Soviet Army in Kaliningrad. From 1972 to 1974 he again worked as senior engineer at the Botanical Garden of the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences.

He was married to Ludmila Yuryevna Rud (née Tsirkind, first married Gokhman; 1946, Osipovichi, Mogilev Region, Belarus). Their daughter was Ada Meerovna Rud (1969, Riga).

In 1974 Meyer Rud received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1971 lived his mother Esther Leibovna Rosenman (née Pikhotnik, first married Rud; 1925) and his maternal half-sister Anna Mendelevna Rosenman (1955, Riga). Later he emigrated to the United States.

Family:

Skhoriy (Sakhariy) Meerovich Rud (1922 — according to other sources 1905 — 1961) — father
Esther Leibovna Rosenman (née Pikhotnik, first married Rud; 1925) — mother
Anna Mendelevna Rosenman (1955) — maternal half-sister
Ludmila Yuryevna Rud (née Tsirkind, first married Gokhman; 1946) — wife
Ada Meerovna Rud (1969) — daughter
Rimma Lazarevna Gokhman (1964, Riga) — stepdaughter (wife’s daughter from first marriage)