| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Vainshtein |
| Name | Liya |
| Patronym | Zusievna |
| Birth year | 1953 |
| Birth month | 1 |
| Birth day | 17 |
| Birth place | Daugavpils |
| Sex | F |
Vainshtein (Weinstein) (Khabenskaya) Liya Zusievna (17.01.1953, Daugavpils) - engineer-economist. Liya Vainshtein was born in a family of tailors Zus Khaimovich Khabensky (1914, Kaganovichi, Kiev region) and Feiga Khaimovna Khabinskaya (Toker) (1918, Daugavpils). Graduated from secondary school No. 3 (1970, Daugavpils), graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Leningrad State University (1976, Riga). Worked as an engineer at the Latvian branch of the State Design and Technological Institute for Mechanisation of Accounting and Computing Works of the USSR Central Statistical Office (1976-1979, Riga).
Married to Vainstein Meyer Leibovich (1949, Riga) and had a daughter Vainstein Dana Meerovna (1973, Riga).
In 1979 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband's mother, Vainstein (Yankovich) Sara Eliakinovna, had lived since 1972.
Zus Khaimovich Khabensky (1914) - father
Feiga Khaimovna Habinskaya (Toker) (1918) - mother
Raisa Zakharovna Khabinskaya (1946, Daugavpils) - sister
Solomon Zakharovich Khabinsky (1947, Daugavpils) - brother
Meer Leibovich Vainshtein(1949) - husband
Dana Meerovna Vainshteinstein (1973) - daughter
Sara Elyakinovna (Jankovich) Vainstein (1913) - husband's mother.
Note on the discrepancy between father's and mother's surnames:
In 1942, during the fighting near Stalingrad, Zusya Khaimovich Khabensky was offered to change his surname, first name, patronymic and nationality in case he fell into Nazi captivity. A military ticket was issued, which read: ‘Khabinsky Zakhar Efimovich, Ukrainian’. At the conclusion of marriage with Feiga Khaimovna Toker she received the surname Khabinskaya. The eldest children - Raisa and Solomon - respectively, received the patronymic Zakharovna and Zakharovich, and the surname - Khabinsky and Khabinskaya. In 1952 passports were replaced. And on the basis of the birth certificate was issued a document - Khabensky Zus Khaimovich. Accordingly, the youngest daughter born in 1953 became Khabensky Leah Zusievna.