Drizin Yefim Mikhailovich (born 25 July 1948, Riga) — labourer.

Yefim Drizin was the son of Mikhail Drizin (1921, Riga – 1969, Riga) and Anna Drizina (née Neiburger) (born 1928, Moscow). In 1966, he completed the 11th grade at the 25th Riga Evening School for Working Youth. That same year, he began working as an apprentice fitter-assembler and inspector at the VEF factory.

Between 1967 and 1968 he worked as a porter and electrician at the Somdaris and Maksla industrial combines. In 1968 he enrolled at Riga Polytechnic Institute (later transferring to part-time study, though he was eventually expelled in 1979). In 1969, he worked as a transport operative for the Riga Tram and Trolleybus Authority’s motor workshop. In 1970, he served as stadium foreman at the Latvian Republican Dynamo Council, later that year acting as a rescue station deckhand at Jūrmala municipal enterprise.

From 1970 to 1971 he was a laboratory assistant at Riga Polytechnic Institute, then from 1971 to 1972 at the Riga Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers. He returned to the Riga Tram and Trolleybus Authority in 1973–74 as a foreman. In 1974 he took up the role of chemical workshop supervisor at the “Rossiya” collective farm in Rostov Oblast. Later that year, he was appointed head of subsidiary production at the “Vireši” collective farm in the Alūksne District.

In 1975 he married Ludmila Drizina (née Bogutskaya) (born 1950, Riga), with whom he had a daughter: Renata Drizina (born 1975, Riga). In 1979 Yefim Drizin was granted permission to emigrate to Israel by invitation of his father’s half‑brother, Boris Paley (born 1922, Riga).

Ludmila Drizina (née Bogutskaya) (1950, Riga) — wife
Renata Drizina (1975, Riga) — daughter
Mikhail Drizin (1921, Riga – 1969, Riga) — father
Anna Drizina (née Neiburger) (1928, Moscow) — mother
Boris Drizin(1954, Riga) — brother
Boris Paley (1922, Riga) — father’s half‑brother