Bershadsky (Berschadski) Yakov Yakovlevich (13 October 1947, Kurashasay, Aktobe Region, Kazakh SSR) – technician-technologist.

Yakov Bershadski was born to employees Yakov Abramovich Bershadsky (1921, Odessa Region – 1947, Kurashasay) and Sofia Khaninovna Kassner (1924, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa Region). After relocating with his mother to Riga in 1954, he graduated from the Riga Technical College of Light Industry in 1966. He worked as a fitter at the “Rīgas Tekstils” factory (1966–1968) and as a shift supervisor at the production association “Sadarbs” (1968–1971).

In his marriage to Bronislava Yefimovna Bershadskaya (née Rysina) (1946, Riga), their son, Alexander Yakovlevich Bershadsky, was born in 1968 in Riga.

In 1971, Yakov Bershadski received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1936 his aunt (his father's sister), Klara Abramovna Bershadskaya (1911, Odessa Region), had been residing, having moved there from Romania during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Family:

Yakov Abramovich Bershadsky (1921–1947) – father
Sofia Khaninovna Kassner (born 1924) – mother
Bronislava Yefimovna Bershadskaya (née Rysina) (born 1946) – wife
Alexander Yakovlevich Bershadsky (born 1968) – son
Klara Abramovna Bershadskaya (born 1911) – aunt