Kissel-Groz Ilya Moiseevich (September 30, 1902, Maykop, Krasnodar Krai) — engineer.
Ilya Kissel-Groz was born into the family of a furrier, Moisey Isaakovich Kissel-Groz (1870, Novorzhev, Pskov Province – 1969, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg), and a housewife, Vera Lvovna Kissel-Groz (née Zabinskes) (1876, Kronstadt, Leningrad Region – 1952, Leningrad).
He graduated from the Leningrad Forestry Institute (1924) and worked as an engineer in the survey party of the Sevkavpromles Trust (1924–1926, Rostov-on-Don). Served in the Red Army (1926–1927, 11th Artillery Regiment, Leningrad). After demobilization, he worked as a foreman in the Zapadles Trust (1927–1931, Smolensk); later as an engineer during the construction of the Yaman-Yelga railway line (1931–1933, Bashkir ASSR).
He served as a foreman on the Kirov Railway, then as a site supervisor in Petrozavodsk and Kandalaksha (1933–1936); chief of a construction site and deputy head of the technical department of the Sevzapsstroyput Trust (1936–1944, Petrozavodsk, Smolensk, Leningrad). Later worked as chief engineer of the Construction and Restoration Works Administration (1944–1955, Latvia) and senior engineer at the Balttransstroy Trust (1955–1968).
Married to Sonya Viktorovna Kissel-Groz (née Frenki, previously Lasmanis) (1913, Moscow); their daughter Viktoria Ilyinichna Berson was born in 1951 in Riga.
In 1979, Ilya Kissel-Groz received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1906 his relative (his father’s nephew), Shlomo Samuilovich Gotkhilf (1901, St. Petersburg), had lived.
Family:
Moisey Isaakovich Kissel-Groz (1870–1969) – father
Vera Lvovna Kissel-Groz (née Zabinskes) (1876–1952) – mother
Fanya Moiseevna Tsigelnitskaya (née Kissel-Groz) (1905, St. Petersburg) – sister
Eva Moiseevna Kissel-Groz (1911, St. Petersburg) – sister
Alexandra Moiseevna Senkina (née Kissel-Groz) (1913, Ashevo, Pskov Region) – sister
Shlomo Samuilovich Gotkhilf (1901) – father’s nephew
Sonya Viktorovna Kissel-Groz (née Frenki, previously Lasmanis) (1913) – wife
Viktoria Ilyinichna Berson (1951) – daughter
Sylvia Alexandrovna Krasilnikova (née Lasmanis) (1937, Riga) – stepdaughter (wife’s daughter from her first marriage)