Svet Yakov Ruvimovich (1898)

Svet (Swet) Yakov (Jakow) Ruvimovich (2 July 1898, Feodosia) — physician.

In 1917, Yakov Svet graduated from a gymnasium in Feodosia and entered the Kharkov Medical Institute, where he studied until 1919. From 1920 to 1923, he served in the army hospital service.

In 1923, he resumed his studies, attending the Crimean Medical Institute until 1925, and in 1926 completed his education at the Krasnodar Medical Institute.

From 1926 to 1932, he worked at a district hospital as head of the infectious diseases department. From 1932 to 1938, he served as chief physician of the Institute of Physical Methods of Treatment in Feodosia. From 1938 to 1941, he headed a therapeutic unit and a neurological consultation service.

In August 1941, he was mobilized into the Soviet army and appointed head of the medical unit at Hospital No. 35 in Essentuki. In October 1942, he was evacuated to Samarkand, where he worked as head of Hospital No. 39 and also as head of a treatment department of the Samarkand city health administration.

In 1945, Yakov Svet moved to Riga, where he was appointed director of the city, and later the republican sanitary-epidemiological station. In July 1949, he was transferred to the position of head of the admissions department at the 1st Riga City Hospital.

He was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labour during the Great Patriotic War.”

Archival source: Fund 283, inventory 10, file 240, sheet 25.