| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Sterlina |
| Name | Basya |
| Patronym | Fadeevna |
| Birth year | 1914 |
| Birth month | 6 |
| Birth day | 30 |
| Birth place | Nevel |
| Sex | F |
Sterlina Basya Fadeevna (30 June 1914, Nevel, Velikiye Luki region) — physician.
From 1928, Basya Sterlina lived in Leningrad. Between 1930 and 1932, she studied at the School of Maritime Apprenticeship at the Leningrad Commercial Port, where she qualified as a model-maker in fittings work. From 1932 to 1936, she studied at a workers’ faculty (rabfak), and from 1936 to 1941 at the general medicine and desease prevention faculty of the Arkhangelsk Medical Institute, graduating as a physician.
From 1941 to 1946, she worked as head of a rural medical district in the Krasnopolsky district of the Arkhangelsk region. From June 1946 to February 1948, she worked as a therapist at the Baldone sanatorium in the Latvian SSR.
From March 1948, she worked as a district therapist at the 11th Riga City Polyclinic and as a resident physician in the therapeutic department of the Riga State Clinical Hospital.
Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archives, Fund 283, Inventory 10, File 243, Sheet 218.