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SurnameVald
NameGrigory
PatronymBorisovich
Birth year1938
Birth month3
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birth_placeKharkiv, Ukraine

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Fisher Berta (1886)

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SurnameFisher
NameBerta
Birth year1886
birth_placeLibava
Death placeNew York
SexF

Fisher (Fischer) (née Mark) Berta (1886, Libava, Grobiņa district, Courland Governorate — ?, New York) - translator.

Berta Fisher graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1913. From 1915 she lived in the United States, and from 1922 in Germany. She worked as a translator at the Soviet representation and was involved with the Soviet delegation at the Genoa Conference.

From 1927 to 1939 she lived in the USSR, where she worked with Georgy Chicherin and Maxim Litvinov at international conferences. From 1939 she again resided in the United States. In the 1950s she published a novel about the life of a Jewish family in Russia in the 19th–20th centuries.

Her son George (Yuri) Fisher (born 1923, Berlin) was a Sovietologist. He lived in the USSR in 1927–1930 and 1934–1939, in Germany in 1931–1933, and from 1939 in the United States. He graduated from Harvard University. In 1944–1945 he served as a liaison officer (captain) at an American air base near Poltava and at the airfield in Saky during the Yalta Conference. He later became a professor at Columbia University.

Her son Victor Fisher (born 1924, Berlin) was a statesman and professor. He lived in the USSR in 1927–1930 and 1933–1939, in Germany in 1931–1933, and from 1939 in the United States. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became a specialist in urban planning. He later served as a senator of the U.S. state of Alaska.