Gorelik Bentzion Meerovich (1898 – date of death unknown) — forestry worker, enterprise director.

Bentzion Gorelik began his working life in 1914 in logging and timber rafting. He participated in the Russian Civil War, serving from 1919 to 1922 as a private, and later as a political commissar in the 99th Independent Battalion.

From 1922, he worked in the forestry industry: as head of a timber depot, head of rafting and logging operations at the “Lesbel” Trust, and director of the Gomel Timber Rafting Office.

During the Second World War, he was employed in Saratov Region as chairman of a rural consumer cooperative (selpo) and head of the trade department of the district consumer union.

From 1944 to 1945, he served as director of a timber plant in Gomel. In 1946, he relocated to Latvia, where he worked as director, chief engineer, and senior grader at the Jēkabpils Forestry Enterprise.

He was awarded the medals “20 Years of Victory”, “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR”, and “For Valorous Labour”.