Bimbat Yefim (Efim) Romanovich (20 July 1915, Ulla, Beshankovichy District, Vitebsk Region – ?, ?) – engineer.
After completing seven years of schooling, in 1931, Yefim Bimbat moved with his family to Moscow. Upon finishing vocational school (FZU), he worked as a lathe operator-toolmaker at the FZU school (Armtrust) from 1933 to 1935. He studied at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University from 1935 to 1937 and at the Moscow Evening Mechanical Engineering Institute from 1937 to 1941, completing five courses but not defending his diploma due to the outbreak of the Second World War. From 1937 to 1939, he was a quality control inspector at the Moscow Carburetor Plant, and from 1939 to 1944, he worked as a technologist and foreman at Plant No. 266 named after Lepse.
In 1944, Yefim Bimbat served in the active Red Army as part of the 63rd Guards Rifle Regiment on the 3rd Baltic Front, where he was wounded. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the 57th Stationary Aviation Workshops. After demobilization, he was a senior engineer in the Technical Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Transport Engineering from 1946 to 1949.
In 1949, Yefim Bimbat moved to Riga. From 1949 to 1951, he worked as a technologist and foreman at the Sarkanā Zvaigzne motorcycle plant; from 1951 to 1952, he was head of the tool shop at the repair-mechanical plant of the USSR Ministry of Railways; and from 1952 to 1980 - head of the bureau in the chief technologist's department at the Sarkanā Zvaigzne motorcycle plant.
Yefim Bimbat was awarded the Order of Glory III degree and the medals “For the Victory over Germany,” “In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow,” “20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War,” “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” “30 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War,” “Veteran of Labour,” and “60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR.”
In 1976, Yefim Bimbat took a tourist trip to Czechoslovakia.
In 1957, the OVIR of the Latvian SSR Ministry of Internal Affairs denied his request to travel to the USA.
Since 1956, Yefim Bimbat was married to Fania Isaakovna Peisata. Yefim’s father was Ion-Roman Yakovlevich Bimbat (1886, Polotsk – 1965, Moscow). His mother was Eiga-Elka Tsemokhovna Bimbat, née Elesker,(1877, Ulla – 1951, Moscow). He had a brother: Timofey Romanovich Bimbat (1911, Ulla – ?, ?) and a sister: Sonya Romanovna Bimbat (1910, Ulla – ?, ?), who emigrated to Palestine in 1928.