Kalnitskaya (née Shperling, Weiner) Nina Izevna (b. 23 July 1949, Riga) — Hairdresser.

Nina Kalnitskaya was the daughter of Izya Shperling (b. 1925, Riga) and Cilia Shperling (née Budanitskaya; b. 1929, Bobruisk).

From 1956 to 1966 she attended Riga Secondary School No. 84-1 and Evening School No. 11. In 1966 graduated from Riga Vocational Technical School No. 34, qualifying as a women’s hairdresser. Worked as a hairdresser at the Laimdota Combine (1966–67); operator at MSS-32 (1967–68); senior technician in the Department of Mechanical Computing at SPKB MT (1968); operator in the Department of Economic Information Processing at the Riga Computing Centre (1969). From 1970 worked as a women’s hairdresser at the Laimdota Combine.

Married to Yeshua Weiner (b. 1949, Riga); their son, David Weiner, was born in 1970 in Riga. In 1971 Nina Kalnitskaya received permission to emigrate to Israel on the invitation of her father’s sister, Shoshana Dgani (née Shperling, formerly Srulevich; b. 1911, Riga). During the 1980s she lived and worked in Toronto.

Family:

Yeshua Weiner (b. 1949, Riga) — husband
David Weiner (b. 1970, Riga) — son
Izya Shperling (b. 1925, Riga) — father
Cilia Shperling (née Budanitskaya; b. 1929, Bobruisk) — mother
Alexander Shperling (b. 1952, Riga) — brother
Shoshana Dgani (née Shperling, formerly Srulevich; b. 1911, Riga) — father’s sister