Geikher Eduard Samuilovich (b. 18 August 1935, Kharkiv, Ukraine) – engineer.

No documentation is available concerning his father, education, or early professional background. It is known that Eduard Geikhner worked from 1960 to 1989 at the Riga Wagon-Building Plant (Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca), where he held positions as head of the design bureau, senior workshop supervisor, and design engineer.

He was married to Klara Grigoryevna Geikher (née Guterman, b. 1934, Riga), with whom he had a son, Yevgeny Eduardovich Geikher (b. 1958, Riga).

In 1989, Eduard received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his cousin, David Lazarevich Shimelyovich (b. 1949, Riga), had been residing since 1982.

Family:

Olga Mikhailovna Geikher (née Blok, b. 1910, Zinkiv, Poltava Region, Ukraine) – mother
Klara Grigoryevna Geikher (née Guterman, b. 1934) – wife
Yevgeny Eduardovich Geikher (b. 1958, Riga) – son
David Lazarevich Shimelyovich (b. 1949) – cousin