| Personal data |
| Surname | Khozias |
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| Name | Beola |
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| Patronym | Yankelevna |
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| Birth year | 1940 |
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| Birth month | 1 |
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| Birth day | 2 |
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| birth_place | Jēkabpils |
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Gershov Mikhail Movshevich (1907-1976)
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| Surname | Gershov |
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| Name | Mikhail |
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| Patronym | Movshevich |
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| Birth year | 1907 |
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| Birth month | 11 |
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| Birth day | 29 |
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| Death year | 1976 |
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| death_month | 2 |
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| death_day | 1 |
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| Death place | Riga |
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| Sex | M |
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Gershov (Gerschov) Mikhail (Meyer) Movshevich (29.11.1907–1.02.1976, Riga) — chemical engineer, innovator, and laureate of the USSR State Prize.
Since 1932 Meyer Gershov worked at textile factories in Riga.
Laureate of the Latvian SSR State Prize for the industrial production of furacilin. Possessed a fine singing voice (tenor) and received private vocal training before the war. He was a member of the Artistic Council of the Ministry of Light Industry.
Meyer Gershov participated in the Second World War and was wounded. In 1943, he completed choral conducting courses in Ivanovo at the Artistic Ensemble of the Latvian SSR, where he also began conducting a choir. In 1946, he led the amateur choir of the First City Hospital in Riga. He took part in the Song Festivals.
From 1947, he was head of the chemical workshop at Riga Chemical-Pharmaceutical Plant No. 3. Between 1953 and 1955, he worked as a chemical engineer at Glavtextilprom (Main Textile Industry Directorate).
Under his leadership, numerous new technologies for improving fabric finishing quality were introduced at textile enterprises of the Ministry of Light Industry. He developed a number of improvements and rationalisation proposals. He was awarded two silver medals by the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh).
For implementing a new method for producing the anti-tuberculosis drug PASK, M. Gershov was awarded the USSR State Prize (Third Class) in 1951. In 1966, he was conferred the honorary title of Honoured Worker of Industry of the Latvian SSR. He was a personal pensioner of republican significance.