Galperin Saul Volfovich (born 4 January 1936, Dvinsk – now Daugavpils, Latvia) – engineer.
Saul Galperin was born to the family of a labourer, Volf Shevelevich Galperin (1906, Dvinsk), and a housewife, Dveira Eliasovna Galperina (née Abramson) (1906, Jēkabpils District, Latvia).
He attended various schools and graduated from Riga Evening Shift School for Working Youth No. 25 (1944–1955). He later studied by correspondence at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport (1959–1965). He served in the Soviet Army (1955–1957) in Radomyshl, Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine.
Galperin worked as a quality control inspector at the “Baltijas Rūpnieks” plant (1957), a battery-electrician at the Riga Carriage Works (1957–1961), a design engineer at the VEF factory (1961–1962), and a senior engineer at the “Autoelektropribor” plant (1962–1963). He then returned to VEF as a design engineer (1963–1966), before serving as a senior engineer and head of a computing technology group at the Economics Bureau of the Latvian SSR State Planning Committee (Gosplan). Between 1966 and 1969, he was acting head of a sector and a senior research fellow at the Latvian branch of the Research Institute of the USSR Central Statistical Administration. From 1969 to 1979, he worked as chief specialist and head of a group at the Research and Design Institute NIIS under the “Latgiprogorstroy” Design Institute.
In his first marriage, with Valeria Ignatyevna Moduleva (born 1939), there were no children. The marriage was dissolved in 1972.
In his second marriage, with Zinaida Febusovna Galperina (née Galperina, formerly Rapoport) (born 1946, Riga), there were also no children.
In 1979, Saul Galperin received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his aunt (his father’s sister), Khanna Shevelevna Galperina (born 1917, Vladimir), had resided since 1977.
Family:
Volf Shevelevich Galperin (born 1906) – father
Dveira Eliasovna Galperina (née Abramson) (born 1906) – mother
Elja Vulfovich Galperin (born 1948, Riga) – brother
Valeria Ignatyevna Moduleva (born 1939) – first wife
Zinaida Febusovna Galperina (née Galperina, formerly Rapoport) (born 1946) – second wife
Khanna Shevelevna Galperina (born 1917) – aunt