Frisher (Frischer) Yakov (Jakow) Girshevich (26 June 1933, Madona) — foreman and instructor.

After evacuation to Tashkent during the Second World War, Yakov Frisher returned with his family to Latvia in 1945 and settled in Jēkabpils. In 1951 he completed driver training courses and until 1953 worked as a driver for the motor pool of the Krustpils Sugar Factory.

After military service from 1953 to 1955, he moved to Riga and in 1956 began work at the Riga Metalworking Factory as a fitter-assembler. At the same time, he studied at the Riga Industrial Technical School from 1956 to 1960. With increasing qualifications he was promoted to foreman and later senior foreman.

In 1964 he was employed at Vocational Technical School No. 6 in Riga, where he worked as both foreman and instructor. In the same year he enrolled by correspondence at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute and in 1970 defended his diploma as a mechanical engineer. From 1975 he worked as an instructor at the Latvian Production Transport Training Association “Promdortrans.”

In 1956 he married Vera Frisher (née Lokshina) (born 1936). The marriage was dissolved in 1975, after which he registered a relationship with Nataliya Gishaeva. In 1979 he divorced his second wife, and in 1988 remarried Vera Frisher (née Lokshina).

His mother, Nekhama Frisher (née Meyerson) (born 1903), a native of Bauska, lived in Israel in the 1980s together with his brothers Tsodik Frisher and Leib Frisher (born 1940). His father, Girsh Frisher (1901–1967), a native of Madona, was buried in Riga.

Family:

Vera Frisher (née Lokshina) (1936) — wife
Irina Burshtein (née Frisher) (1957) — daughter
Nekhama Frisher (née Meyerson) (1903) — mother
Tsodik Frisher (1935) — brother
Leib Frisher (1940) — brother
Girsh Frisher (1901–1967) — father