Finkman (Finkmann) (née Stelmakh) Galina Aronovna (28 August 1937, Vinnytsia, Ukraine) — technician-technologist, economist.

Galina Finkman was born into the family of Aron Volkovich Stelmakh (1905, Turbiv district, Vinnytsia region) and Yenya Yudkovna Stelmakh (née Ketser) (1911, Medzhybizh, Khmelnytskyi region).

She received her secondary education in Vinnytsia (Secondary School No. 17).

In 1956, she moved with her parents to Riga, where in 1959 she graduated from the Technical School of Food Industry, qualifying as a technician-technologist in bakery production.

She worked as:

  • a clerk-accountant (1959–1961, Riga Electromechanical Plant — REZ), 

  • an assembler (1962–1965, Riga Instrument-Making Plant), 

  • a senior bookkeeper (1965–1968, SUNTS-54, “Rigapromstroy”), 

  • an economist (1969–1978, Special Design and Research Bureau of the Ministry of Automobile Roads of the Latvian SSR). 

In marriage with Meish-Ruben Girshevich Finkman (1932, Riga), she had a son Lev Rubenovich Finkman (1961, Riga).

In 1978, Galina Finkman received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1977 lived her husband’s cousin Zhenya Berovna Beshkina (née Fleishman) (1936, Riga).

Family :

Aron Volkovich Stelmakh (1905) — father
Yenya Yudkovna Stelmakh (née Ketser) (1911) — mother
Tatyana Aronovna Shoikhet (née Stelmakh) (1933) — sister
Raisa Aronovna Aronshtam (née Stelmakh) (1946) — sister
Meish-Ruben Girshevich Finkman (1932) — husband
Lev Rubenovich Finkman (1961, Riga) — son
Zhenya Berovna Beshkina (née Fleishman) (1936) — husband’s cousin