Kheskin Elik Shikhovich (05.03.1929, Arciz, Odessa Oblast) — engineer. Before 1941, engaged in agriculture on the family farm. In 1941, was evacuated with his mother; they were separated under heavy bombing. In the evacuation, worked at a collective farm in Belgorod Oblast; returned to Arciz in 1944; graduated from Arciz secondary school in 1948; in 1954 — from the Leningrad Railway Transport Engineers Institute. From 1954, worked on the Baltic Railway in various posts: duty officer, station master, signal and communications engineer, head of the computing technology sector, etc. In 1973, applied for permission to leave for Israel to join his mother. In 1957, married Khaskina (née Abrabanél) Rakhil Avenirovna. Children: Khaskin Abram Elikovich (1958, Riga) and Khaskina Gitida Elikovna (1966, Riga). Father — Khaskin Shika Motelevich (1890). Mother — Khaskina Gita Peysakhovna (1906) — survived the occupation concentration camp; lived in Israel.