Geikher Yevgeny Eduardovich, (b. 7 January 1958, Riga) – engineer.

Yevgeny Geikhner was born into the family of Eduard Samuilovich Geikher (b. 1935, Kharkiv, Ukraine), a design engineer, and Klara Grigoryevna Geikher (née Guterman, b. 1934, Zhitkovichi, Gomel Region, Belarus), a librarian.

He graduated from Secondary School No. 40 in 1975, followed by Riga Polytechnic Institute (1975–1980). He worked as an engineer at the RigaPromStroy trust (1980–1981), as a site manager at the Kirov District Construction Management Office in Riga (1981–1986), as a senior mechanical engineer at Enterprise No. 4 of the Vilnis Production Association (1986–1987), and as a site manager with the Republican Expedition for Grain Product Protection (1987–1989).

He married Revekka Yakovlevna Geikher (née Smushkovich, b. 1959, Riga), and they had a daughter, Elina Yevgenyevna Geykher (b. 1980, Riga).

In 1989, Yevgeny Geikher received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his uncle (his father’s cousin) David Lazarevich Shmelevich (b. 1949, Riga) had been residing since 1982.

Family:

Eduard Samuilovich Geykher (b. 1935) – father
Klara Grigoryevna Geykher (née Guterman, b. 1934) – mother
Revekka Yakovlevna Geykher (née Smushkovich, b. 1959) – wife
Elina Yevgenyevna Geykher (b. 1980) – daughter
David Lazarevich Shmelevich (b. 1949) – uncle