Averbukh Gesya Zalmanovna (1909 – exact date and place of birth unknown, status unknown)

Gesya Zalmanovna Averbukh was a participant in the revolutionary movement, a journalist, and an associate of M. A. Yukhno, F. Ya. Friedmann, and P. L. Leibch.

From 1928, in the First Latvian Republic, Gesya Averbukh actively participated in the underground revolutionary movement. She was a member of the Komsomol organisation and served on the Daugavpils City Committee of MOPR (International Red Aid). She was involved in fundraising efforts and delivered care packages to political prisoners in jail. Additionally, she took part in editing underground publications.

Between 1935 and 1939, Gesya Averbukh lived in Czechoslovakia, where she had moved to join her husband. There, she worked within the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. From 1939 to 1940, she was a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Latgalskaya Pravda. She became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1940.

After the restoration of Soviet power in Latvia, Gesya Averbukh worked as the head of the industrial department of Latgalskaya Pravda.

During World War II, she was evacuated and worked in the Penza region as a literary contributor for a district newspaper, a radio editor, and in other journalistic roles.

Between 1945 and 1980, Gesya Averbukh served as head of the agricultural department, literary contributor, and head of the letters department in the editorial offices of Latgalskaya Pravda, Krasnoye Znamya, and Padomju Daugava.

Gesya Averbukh was awarded the Medal for Valorous Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 and the Medal for Valorous Labour in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin. She was a personal pensioner of republican significance.