| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Volkova |
| Name | Sofa |
| Patronym | Rafailovna |
| Birth year | 1944 |
| Birth month | 7 |
| Birth day | 6 |
| Birth place | Fergana |
| Sex | F |
Volkova (née Shneider) Sofa Rafailovna (6 July 1944, Fergana Oblast, Uzbek SSR) – engineer.
Sofa Volkova worked as a courier at the “Avrora” factory from 1960 to 1961. From 1961 to 1962, she was employed as a turret lathe operator at the Riga Turbo-Mechanical Plant. In 1966, she graduated from the Faculty of Automation and Instrument Engineering at the Riga Polytechnic Institute, qualifying as a mechanical engineer in automation. From 1967 to 1969, she worked as a design engineer at the “Rigakhimmash” plant. From 1969 to 1970, she served as a senior engineer at the Latvian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information. From 1970 to 1975, she was a design engineer at the “Progress” plant in Riga.
In 1975, Sofa Volkova left Latvia.
Family:
Volkov Gennady (b. 1940) – husband
Volkova Ilana (b. 1966) – daughter
Volkov Anatoly (b. 1968) – son
Shneider Rafael (b. 1913) – father
Shneider (née Musin) Keile (b. 1920) – mother
Shneider Raisa (b. 1952) – sister
Shneider Pinkhus (b. 1941) – brother