Khalupovich (Halupowitsch) Khaim (Chaim) Girshovich (25 May 1931, Rēzekne) — engineer.

Khaim Khalupovich was born into the family of shoemaker Girsh Davidovich Khalupovich (1898, Riga) and homemaker Zara Itsikovna Khalupovich (née Tuder) (1902, Rēzekne).

Until 1941 he lived with his parents in Abrene (now Pytalovo, Pskov Region). During the war he was evacuated to Taldy-Kurgan, Kazakh SSR (1941–1945).

After arriving in Riga, he graduated from Secondary School No. 9 (1945–1949), and in 1954 graduated from the Bonch-Bruevich Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, after which he was assigned to work in Riga.

From 1954 to 1962 he worked at the Latvian Republican Radio Center of the Ministry of Communications as an engineer, shift supervisor, senior engineer, and head of the VHF unit workshop of the Riga Television Center.

From 1962 to 1973 he worked at the Riga branch of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Railway Car Construction as a senior engineer, senior research associate, and laboratory head.

In 1973 he worked as an instructor at the trust “Latorgtekhselstroy.”

In marriage with Sheyne-Gite Shmuelovna Khalupovich (née Golman) (1935, Riga) two children were born: Ilana Khaimovna Khalupovich (1960, Riga) and Lev Khaimovich Khalupovich (1966, Riga).

In 1973 Khaim Khalupovich received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1971 his wife’s aunt, Khaya Davidovna Shlakhter (née Remigalskaya) (1894, Riga), and his wife’s cousin, Liba Iosifovna Golman (née Shlakhter) (1925, Riga), had been living.

Family:

Girsh Davidovich Khalupovich (1898) — father
Zara Itsikovna Khalupovich (née Tuder) (1902) — mother
Abram Girshovich Khalupovich (1944, Taldy-Kurgan, Kazakh SSR) — brother
Sheyne-Gite Shmuelovna Khalupovich (née Golman) (1935) — wife
Ilana Khaimovna Khalupovich (1960) — daughter
Lev Khaimovich Khalupovich (1966) — son
Khaya Davidovna Shlakhter (née Remigalskaya) (1894) — wife’s aunt
Liba Iosifovna Golman (née Shlakhter) (1925) — wife’s cousin