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Frid Sofya Iosifovna (1906)

Personal data
SurnameFrid
NameSofya
PatronymIosifovna
Birth year1906
Birth month1
Birth day5
Birth placeMinsk
SexF

Frid (Fried) Sofya (Sofia) Iosifovna (5 January 1906, Minsk — date unknown) — physician.

In 1936 Sofiya Frid graduated from the Minsk State Medical Institute with a specialization in internal medicine. From June 1936 to November 1938 she worked at the hospital of a glass factory in the Gomel region. From November 1938 to December 1939 she was employed as a physician at the “Gomselmash” plant in Gomel. From January 1941 she worked as a therapist at the Central Polyclinic in Minsk.

In June 1941 she was drafted into the Red Army. She served as head of the receiving and triage platoon on the Crimean Front. From May 1942 to July 1946 she was head of the therapeutic department of Evacuation Hospital No. 4552 of the North Caucasus Military District and the North Caucasus Front. In July 1946 she was demobilized.

After demobilization, until November 1947 she worked as a physician in military unit No. 01382. From 16 November 1947 she served as a district physician at the Central Polyclinic of the Latvian SSR. From January 1948 to January 1949 she was a senior resident physician in the therapeutic department of the united hospital in Daugavpils. From 1952 to 1955 she worked as a neurologist at the 10th Riga polyclinic.

She was awarded the medal “For the Defense of the Caucasus.”

Family:

Botvinnik Aron Moiseevich — husband
Lev Iosifovich Frid — brother
Rakhil Iosifovna Rusmanova — sister
Maria Iosifovna Frid — sister