Golanskaya (née Shvey) Sima Bentzionovna (born 1945, Riga) — hairdresser.

Sima Golanskaya was born into the family of Bentzion Yakovlevich Shvey (1916, Rēzekne), a dental technician, and Anna Semyonovna Shvey (néeSherman) (1924, Polotsk, Belarus), a dental surgeon.

After completing secondary school, she worked as an apprentice regulator at the VEF factory in Riga (1964–1965), and as a hairdresser at the Consumer Services Combine in Jūrmala (1965–1971).

She was first married to Georgy Mikhailovich Grinevsky (born 1941, Moscow); the couple had no children. Her second marriage was to She’el Ilyich Golansky (born 1946, Riga); they also had no children.

In 1971, she was granted permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband’s uncle, Yosef Savelyevich Golansky (born 1913, Viļaka), was already residing.

Bentzion Yakovlevich Shvey (born 1916) — father
Anna Semyonovna Shvey (née Sherman) (born 1924) — mother
Aviva Bentzionovna Shvey (born 1963, Riga) — half-sister (paternal)
Romuald Bentzionovich Shvey (born 1969, Riga) — half-brother (paternal)
Georgy Mikhailovich Grinevsky (born 1941) — first husband
She’el Ilyich Golansky (born 1946) — second husband
Yosef Savelyevich Golansky (born 1913) — husband’s uncle