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Gershoig Abram Lvovich (1906)

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SurnameGershoig
NameAbram
PatronymLvovich
Birth year1906
Birth month10
Birth day20
Birth placeKharkiv
SexM

Gershoig Abram Lvovich (20 October 1906, Kharkiv) — accountant.

In 1925, Abram Gershoig completed accountancy courses and began working at the Medtorg Administration of the People’s Commissariat of Health of the Ukrainian SSR (Kharkiv). From 1929 to 1930, he studied at management rationalisation courses. Between 1930 and 1933, he attended the correspondence department of the Financial-Economic Institute but left in his third year.

From May 1931, he served as Deputy Chief Accountant of the Main Pharmaceutical Administration of Ukraine. In May 1932, he was transferred to Kyiv, where he worked as Chief Accountant at the Medtorg division of the Main Pharmaceutical Administration of the Ukrainian SSR until the evacuation in September 1941. From December 1941 to May 1943, he was an accountant for the Frunze military trading service.

In May 1943, Abram Gershoig was drafted into the army and served as a private in the 430th Rifle Regiment. From 1944 to 1946, he worked as Chief Accountant of Construction Site No. 9 in Voronezh. After demobilisation, he relocated to Lviv, where he held the post of Chief Accountant of the Lviv Regional Pharmaceutical Administration until March 1953. From 1 April 1953, he served as Deputy Chief Accountant, and later as Chief Accountant of the Main Pharmaceutical Administration of the Ministry of Health of the Latvian SSR.

His wife was Polina Moiseyevna Charnaya-Gershoig; their sons’ names were Yakov and Valerian.